The flag of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is the war flag of the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...

; the layout of the flag has a golden star at the top left corner and two Chinese characters "" to the right of the star, placed on a red field. The characters "" (literally "eight one") are a reference to the

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of August 1, 1927 (8th month, 1st day, also known as 8月1日); when the PLA was created by the

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at the start of their rebellion in

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against the

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History

Based on a decree issued from

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, the main flag of the PLA was created on 15 June 1949.

Design

The flag has a ratio of 5 by 4, which has a white sleeve measuring of the flag's length. For ceremonies, a PLA flag with golden fringe is placed on a pole with gold and red spiral stripes and topped with a golden finial and red tassel. Each branch of the PLA, the Ground Forces,

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, Rocket Force, also have their own individual flags. In a 1992 order, the flags of the three branches were defined: the top of the flags is the same as the PLA flag; the bottom are occupied by the colors of the branches. The flag of the Ground Forces has a forest green bar at the bottom, the naval ensign has stripes of blue and white at the bottom, the Air Force uses a sky blue bar at the bottom, the Rocket Force uses a yellow bar at the bottom. The forest green represents the earth, the blue and white stripes represent the seas, the sky blue represents the air, the yellow represents the flare of missile launching. On 10 January 2018, the

People's Armed Police ) , abbreviation = PAP ("People's Armed Police") CAPF ("Chinese Armed Police Force"), formerly abbreviated''Wujing'' ( zh , s = 武警 , p = Wǔjǐng , l = Armed Police , labels = no ), or WJ as on vehicle license plates , patch ...

received a new flag following the design of the branch flags with three olive stripes at the bottom. The three olive stripes represents the People's Armed Police responsible for the three main tasks and force composition of maintaining national political security and social stability, maritime rights protection and law enforcement, and defense operations.

Gallery

File:People's Liberation Army Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg, alt=A golden star, along with three Chinese characters, placed on a red background.,

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File:Ground Force Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg, alt=A golden star, along with three Chinese characters, placed on a red background. At the bottom of a flag is a green bar.,

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File:Naval Ensign of the People's Republic of China.svg, alt=A golden star, along with three Chinese characters, placed on a red background. At the bottom of a flag are stripes of blue, white, blue, white and blue.,

File:Air Force Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg, alt=A golden star, along with three Chinese characters, placed on a red background. At the bottom of a flag is a sky blue bar.,

File:Rocket Force Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg, alt=A golden star, along with three Chinese characters, placed on a red background. At the bottom of a flag is a yellow bar., Rocket Force File:People's Armed Police Flag.svg, alt=A golden star, along with three Chinese characters, placed on a red background. At the bottom of a flag is 3 green bars.,

References

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