The 2003 special stamp issues will cover a series of new and innovative designs including the soon-to-be-opened Hong Kong Disneyland, traditional trade and crafts, miniature landscapes, pet fishes, the popular Chinese percussion instruments and water birds.

The Hong Kong post said the attractive world heritage in the Chinese mainland will be depicted for the first time ever on Hong Kong stamps.

Also available in 2003 will be the first set of Tete-beche and pentagonal stamps in Hong Kong, featuring major changes of public housing development in Hong Kong and the first set of special stamps printed on flock paper featuring Lunar New Year animals, it said.

(Xinhua News Agency September 12,2002)