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The flag of China, also known as the Five-star Red Flag,
is a red field charged in the canton (upper corner nearest the flagpole) with
five golden stars. The design features one large star, with four smaller stars
in a semicircle set off towards the fly (the side farthest from the flag pole).
The red represents the communist revolution; the five stars and their
relationship represent the unity of the Chinese people under the leadership of
the Communist Party of China (CPC). The first flag was hoisted by the People's
Liberation Army (PLA) on a pole overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square on 1
October 1949, at a ceremony announcing the founding of the People's Republic.
Other flags used in the People's Republic of China use a
red background to symbolize the revolution in conjunction with other symbols.
The flag of the People's Liberation Army uses the gold star with the Chinese
characters 8-1 (for 1 August, the date of the PLA's founding). The flag of the
Communist Party of China replaces all of the stars with the party emblem. Due
to government regulations, cities and provinces of China cannot have their own
flags; the only sub-national flags that exist are those of the Hong Kong and
Macau Special Administrative Regions. Despite this, at least two cities have
adopted flags after the law was passed. The cities of Kaifeng and Shangrao
adopted their flags in March 2006 and March 2009 respectively. This implies
that the law is either repealed or not enforced.
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