North China Liberation Area

The North China Liberation Area was the expanded North China Border Area made up of Chahar, Hebei (Hopei), Shaanxi (Shensi) and Suiyan provinces.

Postage
 File:N China soldier attack.jpg|$3 infantry attack File:N China farmer litho.jpg|$6 farmers hoeing, lithographed File:N China tower surch.jpg|$5 on $50 surcharge File:N Chi 3 on 50.jpg|$3 on $50 March 1949 surcharge ("revised") File:PRC N China .jpg|$6 on $10 April 1949 surcharge 
 * In 1949, two lithographed designs were issued inscribed N Chi PepRep post.png showing an infantry attack or farmers hoeing.
 * Rep. of China money order stamps with a pagoda design were surcharged N Chi post teleg.png ("North China post and telegraph") in its rightmost column.
 * In March 1949, various Rep. of China Northeastern Provinces stamps and a $100 Sun Yat-sen stamp were surcharged with a vertical Peoples Rep Post RtoL.png with Revised.png ("revised") at right and North China.png horizontally at the bottom.
 * In April 1949, various stamp of the Rep. of China and its Northeastern provinces were similarly overprinted except the characters at right were now Temporary use.png ("temporary use").

 File:N china Mao flag.jpg|$10 Mao, engraved File:N China square Mao.jpg|$20 Mao, engraved File:N China Gate of Heav.jpg|$100 Tienanmen File:N Chi farmers engr.jpg|$3000 farmers, engraved 
 * Also in 1949, A Labor day set was issued, showing two workers atop a globe.
 * In July 1949, a set with two different square format engraved designs of Mao were issued.
 * In August 1949, various Northeastern province stamps and one $7000 Sun Yat-sen stamp were surcharged with horizontal Peoples Rep Post RtoL.png at top, large characters of value in the center and North China.png at right.
 * In November 1949, a set of Tienanmen stamps was issued inscribed N Chi PepRep post.png but left to right. This is similar to the Tienanmen issues of the People's Republic except for the inscription.
 * In December, The farmers hoeing design was issued engraved. The country inscription now read left to right.

Parcel post
In 1949, for maximum confusion, different surcharges on Republic of China parcel post or money order (pagoda) stamps were used. How did they win the war, you might wonder.  File:N China parcels.jpg|$100 on $10 money order stamp File:North China loco parcels.jpg|$20,000 value 
 * Republic of China parcel post stamps were overprinted in three horizontal lines – Peoples Rep Post RtoL.png, then the denomination in Chinese, then North China.png.
 * About the same time, parcel post stamps were surcharged with the characters of Temporary use.png flanking the new value in Chinese in a box at top, then North China Post & Tel.png ("North China Post and Telegraph"), then Temporary use.png again (again?) and then the new value in arabic numerals in a box at the bottom.
 * Republic of China money order stamps were surcharged horizontally Peoples Rep Post RtoL.png, Parcel post long.png on the next line, then the value in Chinese, and then North China.png.
 * Then money order stamps were surcharged horizontally North China.png, then the denomination in Chinese, then Parcel post long.png, then the denomination again and then North China.png again. Five points for symmetry.
 * Then a single $20 on $1 red surcharge was released, the new denomination at top and bottom with Parcel post long.png between.
 * Later in 1949, region-specific parcel post stamps inscribed Peoples Rep Post RtoL.png at top and Parcel post long.png at bottom showing a locomotive were issued.

See

 * '''Communist China, a disambiguation page

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