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A number of postal fans lined up at Shanghai Post on Thursday to purchase commemorative stamps and envelopes to celebrate the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s 100th anniversary. 

China Post issued a set of 20 commemorative stamps and a commemorative cover, revealing the 100-year journey the CPC has traveled. The stamps use red and gold as the main tones of the picture. The commemorative envelopes contain the pattens of the Party emblem, Great Wall and a golden inscription of Chinese characters saying "Staying true to our original aspiration and founding mission."

Early at 6:30 am, the Global Times reporter noticed that many fans holding up Chinese national flags were lining up in front of the Shanghai Post Museum to purchase the commemorative stamps and envelopes.

Among the fans, there was 12-year-old student and also Party members who have been awarded commemorative medals bearing five decades of Party membership.

It has "special meaning to purchase the commemorative stamps today," the 100th birthday of the Party, 12-year-old Shen Xinyi who came to the postal office early with her mother, told the Global Times on Thursday.

The commemorative stamps have "historic significance," Cao Min, 72, a retired public servant who is a postal fan and awardee of commemorative medals told the Global Times on Thursday. 

"The Party awarded medals to us to encourage us and recognize our work in the past decades," Cao said, noting that the Party cares about the people.

Yang Chaode, 66, a CPC member himself from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, lined up from Wednesday afternoon. Yang couldn't help conceal his excitement to purchase the stamps, "my friends in Xinjiang are waiting for me to send the letters to them, with the postmark in Shanghai, the birthplace of CPC on July 1," Yang told the Global Times on Thursday.