Stamp is a common world language that transcends
national boundaries, nationalities and customs and connects people together
through friendship.
Luoyang is a thousand-year imperial capital and a city of peony that
represents the soul of Chinese cultures and exhibits the grace of the peony, the
queen of flowers. Luoyang is a place endowed with fine spirits of the universe
and blessed with a long history.
China 2009 World Stamp Exhibition is held in Luoyang, an ancient yet modern
famous historical and cultural city.
The exhibition presents the stamp collectors with a
colorful volume of arts and composes a magnificent chapter of happiness,
equality, exchange, harmony, peace, progress and development for the people
throughout the world. Out of such happiness, we hereby make the following solemn
declaration on behalf of the stamp collectors throughout the world:
For the peace, friendship and love in the world, we will carry forward the
philately, a beneficial activity that has lasted for one hundred years. We will
make stamps become messengers between different nations, nationalities and
languages, and carry forward the credibility of postal services through
philately.
For the holiness and sanctity of arts, we will set aside differences in
politics, religions, races, cultures and wealth, and express our broad vision
and all-inclusive aesthetic values embodied in small stamps.
For the essence and elegance of philately, we will translate the common
pursuit of human beings for freedom, democracy, peace and wealth into the
highest ideal of philately.
For the development and future of philately, we will keep innovating, bring
philately into modern life as an element of fashion and vitality, and advocate
openness and tolerance in philately.
We collect history in order to create history. We inherit civilization in
order to develop civilization. We travel around the five Continents on a small
stamp, and we also pray for peaceful navigations across the four Oceans in the
world. We enjoy the fun of philately and we wish for peace and happiness for the
people around the world.
We need to remember Luoyang and give credit to the Peony, as they witness
the common aspirations of stamp collectors and carry the dreams and hopes of the
people for philately. From here, the philately will march toward new splendor.