Last modified: 2015-06-03 by zoltán horváth
Keywords: dounan | china | prayer flag | commercial flags |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
See also:
External links:Contrary to recent history (where companies had only the Chinese flag as
their own flag) we are now seeing more state-owned but privately-managed-style
Chinese companies, where they have their own
flag.
Esteban Rivera, 05 January 2015
![[Bank of China flag]](../images/c/cn-boc.gif)
![[Bank of China flag]](../images/c/cn-boc-v.gif)
images by Zachary Harden, 16 December 2012
Responding to a question and answer on the FOTW-fb page about a mysterious
Chinese flag flown over disputed territories, Nozomi Kariyasu identified the
logo on the flag as that of the Bank of China.
http://picm.photophoto.cn/014/019/025/0190250029.jpg is the Visual
Identity Manual for the Bank of China and the official flag is a dark red
(Pantone 201 C) on a white background. If the flag is 80x120 CM, the logo
is placed in the middle and has a diameter of 55 CM. While doing a quick Google
image search shows only the white/red flag; I am also certain the red/yellow
flag color scheme is also used for patriotic displays. I am attaching both
versions of the flag.
Zachary Harden, 16 December 2012
![[CNOOC flag]](../images/c/cn$cnooc.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2015
"China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC Group (Chinese:
中国海洋石油总公司 Pinyin: Zhōngguó Háiyáng Shíyóu Zǒnggōngsī), is a major
national oil company in China. It was established in 1982."
The flag is a dark blue horizontal flag with the
logo on the canton.
The flag is seen
here
(first flag from left to right).
Source:
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2013/09/11-tiger-hunt-china-oil-patch-downs
For additional information go to:
CNOOC (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 05 January 2015
![[COSCO company flag]](../images/c/cn$cosco.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 September 2010
A flag can be seen in a Yahoo News photo (ephemeral url, but detail seen
here) captioned:
"A COSCO company flag and a Chinese national flag fly in front of the company's
headquarters in Beijing August 26, 2010. China COSCO Holdings, flagship of the
country's premier shipping firm, swung into the black with second-quarter profit
on recovering trade, but overcapacity and a possible global slowdown may drag."
It is blue with the corporate logo in white: the word COSCO in a blocky font,
the S extended upward into a spike, encircled by a halo.
Eugene Ipavec, 23 September 2010
![[Dòunán commercial flag]](../images/c/cn_yn-do1.gif)
image by Roman Kogovsek
![[Dòunán commercial flag]](../images/c/cn_yn-do2.gif)
image by Roman Kogovsek
Dounan town is close to Kunming, Yunnan's capital. The whole region is
famous as China's flower capital. There is a lot of business going on, and I
think that purpose of those two flags is mainly commercial.
Roman Kogovsek, 19 June 2005
The success of cut flowers as a new product was due to the initiative of
farmers in a village with 1,619 households called Dounan which used to grow
vegetables in the suburb of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province.
The Dounan Flower Market in suburban Kunming is the largest in China. It
opens from four o'clock in the morning till 10 at night. Every day, it
receives more than 2,000 flower dealers from all parts of the country. The
daily sales reach 1.2 million yuan from the 1.4 million sprays of fresh
cut-flower.
Eugene Ipavec, 20 June 2005
![[Lenovo flag]](../images/c/cn$lenvo.gif)
image by Randy Young, 25 May 2015
"Lenovo Group Ltd. (联想集团有限公司 ) is a Chinese multinational computer technology company with
headquarters in Beijing, China, andMorrisville, North Carolina, United
States. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells personal
computers, tablet computers,smartphones, workstations, servers,
electronic storage devices, IT management software and smart
televisions. Lenovo has operations in more than 60 countries and sells
its products in around 160 countries. Lenovo was founded in Beijing in
November 1, 1984 as Chinese Academy of Sciences Computer Technology
Research Institute New Technology Development Company, then renamed
Legend and was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988. Lenovo acquired
IBM's personal computer business in 2005.
"Lenovo" is a portmanteau of "Le-" (from Legend) and "novo", Latin
ablative for "new." The Chinese name (simplified Chinese: 联想;
traditional Chinese: 聯 想;pinyin: liánxiǎng) means "association" (as in
"word association") or "connected thinking" but can also imply
creativity.
For the first 20 years of its existence, the company's English name
was "Legend" (in Chinese 联想 Lianxiang). In 2002, Yang Yuanqing decided
to abandon use of the Legend brand name in order to expand outside of
China. The "Legend" name was already in use by many other businesses
worldwide, making it impossible to register in most jurisdictions. In
April 2003, the company publicly announced its new name, "Lenovo,"
with a large media campaign involving huge billboards and primetime
television ads."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo
For additional information go to: Lenovo (official website)
The flag is a horizontal blue flag with the
logo
in invered colors (that is, letters are in white). Image of
flag. (Cropped image of flag part.)
Source:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/chinese-national-and-company-branded-flags-fly-outside-the-news-photo/458888218
Esteban Rivera, 24 May 2015
![[PetroChina flag]](../images/c/cn$cnpc.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 06 January 2015
"PetroChina Company Limited (SimplifiedChinese: 中国石油天然气股份有限公司),
(TraditionalChinese: 中國石油天然氣股份有限公司) (SEHK: 0857,SSE: 601857, NYSE:
PTR) is a Chinese oil and gas company and is the listed arm of
state-owned
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).
It was established in 1999."
Sources:
http://www.petrochina.com.cn/ptr/gsjj/gsjs_common.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PetroChina
The flag is a light blue horizontal flag with the
logo in the
middle with the inscription of the company's name in an emboldened,
black typeset, "PetroChina" (Chinese: 中国石油; pinyin: Zhōngguó shíyóu).
The flag is seen
here
(first flag from left to right).
Sources:
http://www.petrochina.com.cn/ptr/gsbs/gsjs_common.shtml
http://www.vcpost.com/articles/14651/20130909/petrochina-share-trading-resume-sh.htm.
For additional information go to:
PetroChina (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 05 January 2015
![[Dòunán commercial flag]](../images/c/cn_deco.jpg)
image by J. Patrick Fischer, 5 November 2006
Chinese seem to be crazy for flags, although there are no regional flags.
But every shopping mall or company have a own flag in front of their
entrance.
Another very popular tradition is to decorate the shop, office, school or
sth else with monochrome flags in different colours for any celebrations.
Normally, there are blue, red, yellow, green and pink flags together like in
this picture.
J. Patrick Fischer, 5 November 2006
