The content of the postcard is below : " Respected Your Excellency Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, Excuse me boldly write to you. I am a Chinese retired employee of Sinopec Jinling petrochem corp. in Nanjing China, as well as a philatelist for many years. Lately, you paid a important working visit to China on Jul.19-21. Your visit brings about the people's friendship of New Zealand to China. The bilateral relations between both countries have made considerable headway since established diplomatic relations on Dec. 22,1972, Both countries jointly issued "Flowers" stamps on Oct,9,1997. President Jiang will visit your country in Sep.this year. The meeting of economic cooperative organization of Asia and Pacific will be convened in your country. In order to record and exhibit this important visit in a philatelic form, so that to leave a precious historic information, I earnest hope you could autograph this postcard stuck "Flower" stamps (verso) at your leisure beside busy affairs of state and mail it back to me,as a perpetual philatelic treasure. I looking forward to your kind help. 　　Pray accept my best and sincerest wishes 　　　　A Chinese retired philatelist for 62 ages 　　　　Han Wanguang "

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