Emblem of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

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 instructions from Zhou Enlai, the design 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 in July 1949. With the approval of Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Preparatory Committee, 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]