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Several versions of the interpretation exist to give to the five yellow stars of the People's Republic of China flag.

The Constitution of People's Republic of China, adopted in 1982, stipulates that China used the flag and the emblem national that had been chosen on the eve of the proclamation of the popular Republic October 1st, 1949, at the time of the 1 era Conference Consultative politics of the Chinese people.

In June 1949, during the first session of the preparatory Committee of the political consultative Conference a committee has been formed having for task to elaborate a project of flag, emblem and national anthem. The group inquired by various surroundings of the propositions of projects and, in one month, received 4912 projects of flag and 1120 of emblem. Then a project ended up being chosen. His/her/its inventor is Weng Liansong, that worked then at the modern economy agency in Shanghai.

The national flag of People's Republic of China is a red flag of oblong format (3x2), that carries on the left in top five yellow stars:  a big and four small. The five yellow stars to five branches concentrate in the left superior part of the flag;  the four smaller form a semi-circle on the right of a bigger star. The five stars symbolize the big union of the whole people (the small stars), around the Chinese Communist Party, the big star. The red is the symbol of the revolution and the yellow, the one of light flooding the Chinese territory.

The red flag to five stars has been hoisted for the first time on the place of Tiananmen October 1st, 1949. Since this day, he became the national flag and face like such in the Constitutions of 1954, 1975, 1978 and 1982.

Other less official sources also present their version

1 - the red color of the flag is the traditional color of the revolution;  the big golden star represents "the common Program of the Communist Party"; and the small golden stars represent the four classes united by the common program:

    * the workers (. g.ng) * the peasants (. nóng) * the "lower middle class" (..... xi.oz.ch.n chéngshì;  or more classically. sh.ng:  trading, merchant) * the "patriotic capitalists" (.... z.ch.n mínzú, or more classically. xué:  literate)

2 - one finds another interpretation that relates to the period of the foundation of Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen (1911):  the big star would represent the majority population, the Hans (the Chinese ethnic group strictly speaking);  the four small, the four main minorities at the time:  Manchurian, Tibetans, Mongol and Doors (....) and today the minorities ethniques in general.

The number five (has five present stars on the flag) is traditionally a number pomp in the Chinese culture, all as the red color, that is also the symbol of the socialist revolution by a happy coincidence.