If Hong Kong Post office is willing to create new stamps, it will expect suggestions from district council,

tourist associations or government departments.

Once these suggestions are acquired they are sent to stamp advisory committee which selects 6 to 8
themes for artists who will create these artworks.
The next stage is for advisory committee to decide whether amateur or professional skilled person
should take care of this task.
If the advisory committee decides to allow public to submit entries, they set up and publicize the
competition.
Meanwhile, the committee can also designate three professional artists to submit their proposal
accounted on given suggestions. After having their proposals, one of them is chosen, the designated
artist being asked to detail his work.
At the same time, one of the submitted public entries can be choose, being sent directly to printing
process while the professional artwork is firstly endorsed by secretary for home affairs and afterwards
sent to printing process.