File:China Emblem PLA.svg

Original file ‎(SVG file, nominally 757 × 720 pixels, file size: 898 bytes)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

Description

PRC roundel (symbol/emblem) — red star with yellow fimbriation and the "八 8"–"一 1" PLA emblem inside the star. (This refers to the date 1 August: the People's Liberation Army was founded on 1 August 1927 during the Nanchang uprising.) Used also as military vehicles roundel.

Date

14 March 2006 (original upload date)

Source

Originally from zh.wikipedia; description page is/was China Emblem PLA.svg.

Author

Original uploader was Nicolau at zh.wikipedia

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This image is now in the public domain in China because its term of copyright has expired.

According to copyright laws of the People's Republic of China (with legal jurisdiction in the mainland only, excluding Hong Kong and Macao), amended November 11, 2020, Works of legal persons or organizations without legal personality, or service works, or audiovisual works, enter the public domain 50 years after they were first published, or if unpublished 50 years from creation. For photography works of natural persons whose copyright protection period expires before June 1, 2021 belong to the public domain. All other works of natural persons enter the public domain 50 years after the death of the creator.
According to copyright laws of Republic of China (currently with jurisdiction in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, etc.), all photographs and cinematographic works, and all works whose copyright holder is a juristic person, enter the public domain 50 years after they were first published, or if unpublished 50 years from creation, and all other applicable works enter the public domain 50 years after the death of the creator.

Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Chinese origin that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origin on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the People's Republic of China, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996. For the Republic of China (ROC), the URAA took effect on January 1, 2002.[1])

To uploader: Please provide where the image was first published and who created it or held its copyright.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that this work might not be in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term and have copyright terms longer than life of the author plus 50 years. In particular, Mexico is 100 years, Jamaica is 95 years, Colombia is 80 years, Guatemala and Samoa are 75 years, Switzerland and the United States are 70 years, and Venezuela is 60 years.

čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ português ∙ română ∙ slovenščina ∙ Tagalog ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ മലയാളം ∙ ไทย ∙ 한국어 ∙ 日本語 ∙ 简体中文‎ ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

Released under the GNU Free Documentation License.

SVG development

The SVG code is valid.

This roundel was created with Adobe Illustrator, and then manually edited.

Legal disclaimer
This image contains a symbol prohibited by law in some nations, owing to it being a representation of communism, socialism, or a similar governmental structure; or of an associated political party/organization:

Georgia's parliament: On Amending the Law of Georgia "Charter of Liberty", No. 1867, 2013
Hungary: Act C of 2012 on the Criminal Code, Section 335
Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly: UU No. 27/1999
Latvia's Saeima: Amendments to the Law on the Safety of Public Entertainment and Festivity Events (OP 2013/129.4). Ban only applies at public events.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court confirms Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences. Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.
South Korea's National Security Act (prohibited for symbols or emblems related to North Korea)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

Imagery covered may include the hammer and sickle^en, red star, emblems/insignias, flags or images of leaders.

Original upload log

(All user names refer to zh.wikipedia)

2006-03-14 07:42 Nicolau 600×600 (2827 bytes) '''{{GFDL}}

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:12, 3 October 2023	757 × 720 (898 bytes)	Colohisto	Matching colors with flags
	16:00, 24 September 2020	757 × 720 (4 KB)	Fry1989	Minor adjustment
	19:47, 31 August 2019	756 × 719 (4 KB)	Fry1989	From File:Roundel of China.svg
	09:10, 5 November 2015	715 × 679 (1 KB)	Wylve	Validated
	07:49, 28 October 2010	715 × 679 (1 KB)	Myheimu	Fix the font.
	12:47, 24 September 2010	750 × 705 (3 KB)	AnonMoos	adjusting margins
	04:21, 8 August 2007	600 × 600 (3 KB)	Billytanghh	{{Information \|Description=''' \|Source=Originally from [http://zh.wikipedia.org zh.wikipedia]; description page is/was [http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3AChina_Emblem_PLA.svg here]. \|Date=2006-03-14 (original upload date) \|Author=Original