Photo taken on March 24, 2009 shows the insignia for the Serfs Emancipation Day. The insignia's design features China's five-star, red national flag, along with the sun and snow-capped mountains. The People's Congress of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region endorsed a motion in January this year designating March 28 as the Serfs Emancipation Day to commemorate the emancipation of millions of serfs and slaves in Tibet 50 years ago, photo from Xinhua.

Photo taken on March 24, 2009 shows the insignia marking the 50th anniversary of the democratic reform of Tibet. The insignia's design features a hada, a long piece of silk used as a greeting gift among people of the Tibetan ethnic group, the image of a snow lotus, a rare herb that only grows on high mountains in west China. This insignia also includes China's five-star, red national flag and the sun, photo from Xinhua.