Banner O Hong Kong

Its design was adopted on 4 April 1990 at the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress. The precise uise o the banner is regulatit bi laws passed bi the 58t executive meetin o the State Council held in Beijing. The design o the banner is enshrined in Hong Kong's Basic Law, the ceety's constitutional document, an regulations regardin the uise, prohibition o uise, desecration, an manufactur o the banner are statit in the Regional Flag and Regional Emblem Ordinance. The banner o Hong Kong wis first offeecially hoistit on 1 Julie 1997, in the haundower ceremony markin the transfer o sovereignty.

Hong Kong Special Admeenistrative Region

Use	Ceevil an state banner, ceevil an state ensign normal
Proportion	2:3
Adoptit	Appruivit on 4 Aprile 1990, uised syne 1 Julie 1997
Design	A stylised, white, five-petal Bauhinia blakeana flouer in the centre o a red field
Designed bi	Tao Ho

Seembolism

 

The design o the banner carries cultural, poleetical, an regional meanins. The colour itsel is significant; red is a festive colour for the Cheenese fowk, uised tae convey a sense o celebration an naitionalism. Mairower, the red colour is identical tae that uised in the naitional FRC banner, chosen tae signify the link re-establisht atween post-colonial Hong Kong an Cheenae. The position o red an white on the banner seembolizes the "ane kintra twa seestems" poleetical principle applee'd tae the region. The stylized renderin o the Bauhinia blakeana flouer, a flouer discovered in Hong Kong, is meant tae serve as a harmonizin seembol for this dichotomie. The five starns o the Cheenese naitional banner, representin the Communist Pairty an Mao Zedong's fower classes (proletarian wirkers, agricultural peasants, petty bourgeoisie an caipitalists), are replicatit on the petals o the flouer.

Afore the adoption o the banner, the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Basic Law explained the significance o the banner's design tae the Naitional Fowkcongress:

• Emblem o Hong Kong
• Banner o Macau