How was China's national flag born?

On June 16, 1949, the Preparatory Committee for the New CPPCC decided to set up a committee for the preliminary selection of the national flag and national emblem designs, and from July 14 to August 15 of the same year, it published a notice of solicitation in the People's Daily and other newspapers.

During the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in September 1949, the preliminary selection committee selected 38 patterns from the 3012 patterns received and issued them to all the delegates for discussion. After all the delegates discussed in groups, on the evening of September 25, Chairman Mao Zedong convened a consultative symposium on the national flag, the national emblem, the national anthem, the chronicle and the national capital.

In the discussion on the national flag, the meeting studied and decided to remove the sickle and axe symbol in the original design draft, which was highly ideological and similar to the Soviet Union's flag. The final design was a five-star red flag with a red background and four small stars arching over a large one.

Expanded:

The fourth point of the Resolution on the Chinese People's **** and the National Capital, the Chronicle, the National Anthem, and the National Flag, which was adopted by the First Plenary Session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on September 27, 1949, states, " It is unanimously adopted that the national flag of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China shall be the five-star flag on a red background, symbolizing the great unity of the revolutionary people of China."

The Resolution of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on the National Capital, Chronicle, National Anthem and National Flag of the People's Republic of China and the Flag-Making Methods Adopted by the Bureau of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference stipulate that: the flag of the People's Republic of China shall be a five-starred red flag, rectangular in shape, red in color to symbolize the revolution, with a length of three and a height of two, and adorned with five yellow five-pointed stars in the upper left part of the flag to symbolize the revolutionary unity under the leadership of the ****-producing party. Star with yellow symbolizes the red earth presents light.

A larger star, the diameter of its outer circle for the flag height 3/10, on the left; four stars smaller, the diameter of its outer circle for the flag height 1/10, ring arch on the right side of the big star, and each has a corner pointed right at the center of the big star, expressing the hearts of hundreds of millions of people to the great Chinese ****productivity party, such as the stars arching the North Star. The flagpole sleeve is white to distinguish it from the red color of the flag.

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