The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) will issue stamps on Dec. 20 to mark the fifth anniversary of the founding of the SAR, the Macao Post Office announced here Tuesday.

Speaking at a press conference, Director of the Post Office Carlos Roldao Lopes said that Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah has contributed a special article to be carried on the souvenir sheet of the stamp, in which he reviewed Macao's five-year development and the remarkable memory in administrating the SAR.

In his article, Ho said that the issue of the stamps commemorating the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the SAR is a unique way of keeping an extraordinary memory of the five-year development of Macao.

"In the past five years, the Macao SAR government firmly carried forward the superior tradition of patriotism to the country and Macao and cautiously dealt with the relations of improvement, development and stability," noted Ho in his article.

The Macao Post Office will issue 325,000 units of the post packages including four stamps, a souvenir sheet and a first-day cover. The Macao Monetary Authority will also issue silver coins of five different designs to mark the occasion on Dec. 20.