Emblem of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

The emblem of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is the symbol of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Emblem of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Armiger	Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Adopted	21 September 1949

History

In July 1949, the fifth working meeting of the secretary-general's office of the Preparatory Committee for the New Political Consultative Conference decided to formulate the emblem of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The design by Zhang Ding and Zhou Lingzhao was selected from a large number of designs. After Zhou Enlai's instruction, it was circulated to the Standing Committee members of the Preparatory Committee of the New Political Consultative Conference and was formulated and approved by the Preparatory Committee of the New Political Consultative Conference in July 1949. With the approval of Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Preparatory Committee of the New Political Consultative Conference, it was officially used for the first time at the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which opened on September 21, 1949.^[1][2][3]

There was no rigid regulation for the CPPCC emblem for a long time, and the pattern and color also changed frequently. At the end of 1963, the People's Daily quoted a reader's statement that the map in the CPPCC emblem was inconsistent with the map of China at that time; thereafter, the CPPCC Secretariat invited the State Administration of Surveying and Mapping and the Cartographic Publishing House to propose a new pattern to re-design the emblem, and in August 1965, it issued a notice to all committees across the country to follow this standard.^[4] In January 1981, the General Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference issued the "Regulations of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on the Standards of the Emblem, Signboard and Seal of Local Committees at or Above the County Level", which once again determined the emblem and its replica pattern. In December 2011, the General Office issued the "Notice on Standardizing the Use of the Emblem of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" and issued the "CPPCC Emblem Pattern" with the notice. The "CPPCC Emblem Pattern" issued this time clarified the specific color value of the emblem for the first time. In 2017, according to the arrangement of the General Office, Hang Hai, a teacher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, undertook the design work of the artistic improvement and application specification of the CPPCC emblem,^[5][6] and referred to Zhou Lingzhao's opinions during the revision of the emblem.^[4] In June 2018, the General Office issued the Regulations on the Production and Use of the CPPCC Emblem. Its annex "Emblem Production Regulations" clarified the color, form of expression, use of monochrome, and special process printing of the emblem pattern, and proposed for the first time the technical standards for the three-dimensional production of the emblem.^[7]

Design

Mao Zedong displaying the national emblem of the People's Republic of China in front of the CPPCC emblem during the second session of the CPPCC National Committee in 1950.

The emblem of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has a red five-pointed star at the top, and a red map of China set against a white globe in the center, surrounded by golden ears of wheat and a blue gear connected by a red ribbon. The emblem of the CPPCC embodies the spirit of "the great unity of all democratic classes under the leadership of the proletariat and based on the worker-peasant alliance". The original description of the design by the designer was: "First, the red star represents the leadership of the proletariat; second, the gear and the golden harvest represent the worker-peasant alliance as the basis; third, the four red flags represent the great unity of the four classes (i.e., the working class, the peasant class, the petty bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie); fourth, the map represents the new China, and the background is radiant." The four Arabic numerals "1949" under the red star represent the year in which the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was born; the 10 golden Song-style characters "Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" on the ribbon indicate the full name of the CPPCC.^[1][8]

See also

• National Emblem of China
• Emblem of the Chinese Communist Party