'Red-Star Flag Constitutes Spirit, Dignity'

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'Red-Star Flag Constitutes Spirit, Dignity'

In Chinese history, the name of Li Yukun, a deputy to the 9th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, is closely linked to the "National Red Flag Law of the People's Republic of China."

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In Chinese history, the name of Li Yukun, a deputy to the 9th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, is closely linked to the "National Red Flag Law of the People's Republic of China."

Li said that he was greatly moved by the story that one day before China's National Day for 1988, which fell on October 1, a Chinese American went here, there and everywhere to buy a national flag of China for his children.

He said, "Then I felt the red flag constituted a spirit, strength and dignity." One the eve of the National Day for 1988, he wrote a letter to the National People's congress, proposing that the ceremony for hoisting and lowering the national flag be restored and that a specific law on hanging the national flag be formulated.

On June 28, 1990, the National Flag Law of the People's Republic of China was promulgated and came into force on the National Day of the same year.

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