A special stamp album was issued Wednesday by the All-China Philatelic Federation to mark the centenary anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth, which falls on Aug. 22.

Deng, who died in 1997, was the chief architect of China's of reform and opening up policy.

The album, consisting of 104 stamps with pictures showing the life of Deng, has been kept by 11 Chinese museums, and only 30,000 of the albums will be issued globally, according to the federation.

(Xinhua News Agency June 17, 2004)