List of Chinese flags

This is a list of the current and historical flags of China .

National flags

flag	date	use	description
	Since 1949	Flag of the People's Republic of China	Red cloth with one large and four smaller yellow stars in the upper left corner
	Since 1928	Flag of the Republic of China on Taiwan, from 1911 to 1949 flag of the Chinese Navy, since 1928 flag of the Republic of China (1912–1949) Originally the flag of all of China, after the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 only used on Taiwan	Red cloth with a blue jack with a twelve-pointed sun.

flag	date	use	description
	Since 1997	Hong Kong flag	In the center of the red cloth is a stylized, white, five-petalled Bauhinia flower
	Since 1999	Flag of Macau	A white lotus blossom on a light green background , underneath a stylized bridge over a body of water. An arch of five golden, five-pointed stars extends over the flower.

flag	use	description
	Flag of the People's Liberation Army	Red cloth with a yellow star in the upper left corner and the Chinese numerals "8" and "1", the date of foundation (August 1, 1927)
	Land Forces flag	Flag of the People's Liberation Army with a green stripe in the lower third
	Navy flag	Flag of the People's Liberation Army with three blue and two white horizontal stripes in the lower third
	Flag of the Air Force	Flag of the People's Liberation Army with a blue stripe in the lower third

flag	use	description
	Trade flag	Flag of the Republic with 4 horizontal yellow wavy lines
	Flag of the Land Forces of the Republic of China	Coat of arms of the republic in the center of a red cloth
	Gösch	Flag of the Kuomintang on blue cloth, Coat of Arms of the Republic of China
	Flag of the Air Force of the Republic of China
	Flag of the Tax Service of the Republic	Flag of the Republic with 4 horizontal wavy blue lines on a white cloth
	Flag of the republic water police	Flag of the Republic with 4 horizontal wavy lines
	Flag of the Customs of the Republic

date	use	description
1862-1890	Qing Dynasty flag	Triangular yellow cloth with a Chinese dragon ( Long )
1890-1912	Qing Dynasty flag	Rectangular version of the older flag
1912-1928	Flag of the Republic of China (1912–1949) , five-color flag (五色旗, wǔsèqí)	Five different colored horizontal stripes that represent the peoples of China : Red: Han Chinese Yellow: Manchu Blue: Mongols White: Hui and Uyghurs Black: Tibetans
May 14, 1912 - June 11, 1912	Flag of the Army of the Republic of China	originally flag of the Wuhan Provincial Army, 18 yellow corner points for the then 18 administrative units of China
June 11, 1912-1928	Flag of the Army of the Republic of China	Variant with 19 points
1916	Flag of the military dictator and self-proclaimed emperor of China Yuan Shikai	Five different colored areas that represent the peoples of China, the red cross stands for the rule of the Han Chinese over the other peoples.
1916
1940-1945	Flag of the Reorganized Government of the Republic of China	Chinese inscription in the yellow pennant 和平、反共、建國 ( peace, anti-communism, establishment of a state )
1940-1945	Gösch of the Reorganized Government of the Republic of China
1942-1945	Reorganized Government of the Republic of China war flag

date	use	description
1912-1949	Flag of the autonomous "Sultanate" of the Xibei San Ma	Territory ruled by three Hui warlords (Ma clique) in the Chinese provinces of Ningxia , Gansu and Qinghai
1912–1950 (never internationally recognized)	Flag of Tibet , Tibet (1912–1951)	banned in the PRC
1933-1934	Flag of the Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (First Republic of East Turkestan )
1933-1934	Another flag of the First Republic of East Turkestan, flag of the Uyghur independence movement
1944-1949	Flag of the Republic of East Turkestan (Second Republic of East Turkestan)
1931-1934	Flag of the Jiangxi Soviet
1935-1937	Flag of the Chinese Soviet Republic
1932-1945	Flag of Manchukuo	Yellow flag with a red, blue, white, black striated jack ; Colors have the same meaning as those in the flag of the Republic of China (1912–1928), only that black and white now stood for Koreans and Japanese
1936-1939	Flag of Mengjiang
1939-1941
1941-1945
1945-1949	Flag of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Government
1959-1997	Flag of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong	A British Blue Ensign bearing the Hong Kong coat of arms (1959–1997)
1976-1999	Flag of the Portuguese overseas province of Macau

date	use	description
Since 1895	Flag of the Kuomintang	White twelve-pointed sun on a blue cloth
Since 1921	Chinese Communist Party flag	Hammer and sickle in the upper left corner on a red cloth
Since 1979	Flag of the Taiwanese NOK ; has been used at international sporting events since 1979 as a result of an IOC resolution	On a white cloth the sun of the Kuomintang and the Olympic rings , framed by two lines in red and blue in the shape of a peach blossom, the national flower of the Republic of China
	Flag of the Taiwan Football Association (Chinese Taipei Football Association)
	Flag of the Taiwanese NOK at Paralympics

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