Sun Yat-sen, a pioneer of modern revolution in China, designed a four-patch pocket suit with straight lapels and pocket covers on the basis of widely absorbing European and American costumes. Since then, the tunic suit has become very popular and once became one of the most popular standard clothes for men in China.

Because Mao Zedong, the founding leader of New China, often wears a Chinese tunic suit in public, the West is used to calling it "Chinese tunic suit". In the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of millions of adult men in China mostly wore Chinese tunic suits.

After the 1980s, with the deepening of reform and opening up, suits and other fashions gradually became popular. Although the Chinese tunic suit has been gradually forgotten among the people, it is worth mentioning that China leaders are still used to wearing it when attending major domestic events.

In 2009, the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), President Hu Jintao and other national leaders dressed in Chinese tunic suits faced the world and the world.

The Central Committee of the Chinese Revolutionary Committee submitted 8 speeches and 36 collective proposals to the Fourth Session of the 12th CPPCC National Committee. In the proposal of "Matters Related to the Commemoration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday150th Anniversary", the Central Committee of the Chinese Revolutionary Committee will recommend the Zhongshan suit as the official national costume.