China:Whole Country is Red (Block Of Four)
The stamp of “Whole Country is Red” was originally scheduled to issue on November 25, 1968.
Because all the provincial postal administrations were informed of the sale time by telephone, some postal administrations put the stamps on sale the moment they received them. After the sales in advance in Beijing post offices, a comrade from Beijing Cartographic Publishing House reflected that the boundary line of the map on the stamp did not match that on the map of China published at that time and the South China Sea islands of our country were not marked either. The leaders of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications quickly ordered the Stamp Issuing Bureau to
notify immediately all post offices of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to recover and destroy all the stamps Whole Country is Red. The quantity of this withdrawn stamp is scarce, and many of them are single. It is the first time that the China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum offers the block of four to be displayed on major stamp exhibition.
中国：“全国山河一片红”（四方连）
“全国山河一片红”邮票，原拟定于1968年11月25日发行。
由于仅用电话通知各省局发售时间，造成个别地方接到邮票后即行提前出售。11月23日，北京邮局提前发售后，北京地图出版社的一位同志反映，发现邮票上的地图与我国当时出版的中国地图边界线不符，属我国领土的南海诸岛也未表示出来。邮电部领导迅速指示邮票发行局立即通知各省、市、自治区邮局，将《全国山河一片红》邮票收回，并予以销毁。因此这是一枚撤销发行的邮票，故传世数量稀少，且多为单枚，这次中国邮政邮票博物馆首次在重大邮票展览上提供展出“全国山河一片红”四方联。
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