National emblem is the national symbol of a country in the form of a graphic pattern that often reveals the country’s historical background, revolutionary traditions and even legends and stories. It may also symbolise the social system, political and religious beliefs of a country, as well as its traditional political ideology. The national emblem of the People’s Republic of China shall comprise the design of Tiananmen in its centre illuminated by five stars and encircled by ears of grain and a cogwheel. The different elements in the national emblem have their own symbolic significance. The five stars represent the great unity of the people nationwide under the leadership of the Communist Party of China while the cogwheel and ears of grain symbolise the alliance of the workers and peasants led by the working class. Tiananmen embodies the revolutionary tradition and the national spirit of the Chinese people, and is symbolic of Beijing, the nation’s capital. Conclusively speaking, the national emblem represents the birth of the New China under the people’s democratic dictatorship based on the alliance of workers and peasants through the Chinese people’s new democratic revolutionary struggle ever since the “May Fourth Movement”.