The national emblem of the People's Republic of China (simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国国徽; traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國國徽; pinyin: Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó guóhuī) contains a representation of Tiananmen Gate, the entrance gate of the Forbidden City where Mao declared the foundation of PRC in 1949, in a red circle. Above this representation are the five stars found on the national flag. The largest star represents the Communist Party of China, while the four smaller stars represent the four social classes as defined in Maoism. The emblem is described as being "composed of patterns of the national flag." These elements were described as
...The red color of the flag symbolizes revolution and the yellow color of the stars the golden brilliant rays radiating from the vast red land. The design of four smaller stars surrounding a bigger one signifies the unity of the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
—China Yearbook 2004
The outer circle has a border that contains sheaves of wheat and the inner sheaves of rice, which represents agricultural workers. At the center of the bottom portion of the border is a cog-wheel that represents the industrial workers.
According to The Description of the National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (《中華人民共和國國徽圖案說明》): These elements together were designed to symbolise the revolutionary struggles of the Chinese people since the May Fourth Movement, and the coalition of the proletariat which succeeded in founding the People's Republic of China.
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