Editing Colour guard (section)

=== People's Republic of China ===
[[File:SAVX9718-900.jpg|thumb|Colour guard of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.]]
In the Chinese [[People's Liberation Army]], the colour guards include one ensign holding the flag of the People's Liberation Army as the national colour domestically or the [[flag of China]] when abroad, and two officers or senior NCOs assisting the ensign holding rifles.

In the parades of the 1950s, this configuration was present in every unit of the PLA up to the parade of 1959, but with the ensign and escorts drawn from individual formations. Today, only honour guards are granted colour guard duty to represent the whole of the PLA. Being the senior-most branch of the PLA, the [[PLA Ground Forces|Ground Forces]] representative serves as the ensign in the service colour guard, with the officer to his/her right being from the Navy and the officer to their left being from the Air Force.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y06bCwAAQBAJ&q=guard+of+honor+of+the+pla+hong+kong+garrison&pg=PA17|title=The Chinese People's Liberation Army since 1949: Ground Forces|isbn=9781780960579|last1=Lai|first1=Benjamin|date=20 November 2012}}</ref>  Since 1981, the PLA has continued a tradition of the colour guard detail with the PLA flag leading the [[Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion]] in military parades. In December 2017, the Beijing Garrison Colour Guard Company of the [[People's Armed Police]], which is present during flag ceremonies in Tienanmen Square in Beijing carrying the national flag, was officially attached to the honour guard battalion.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.waonews.com/news/1436-The_historical_moment_Armed_Police_Tiananmen_flag_guard_cancel_the_designation_to_history.html |title=The historical moment: Armed Police Tiananmen flag guard cancel the designation to history |access-date=2018-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421234239/https://www.waonews.com/news/1436-The_historical_moment_Armed_Police_Tiananmen_flag_guard_cancel_the_designation_to_history.html |archive-date=2018-04-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Its colour guard squad follows the same format as the guard of honor colour guard squad.