The
Communist Party of China (CPC) has 95.148 million members as of June 5,
the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee announced on
Wednesday.
Membership was 3.5 percent
up from the figure reported at the end of 2019, and approximately 20
times more than the figure in 1949 when the People's Republic of China
(PRC) was founded, the department said in a report ahead of the CPC's
centenary on July 1.
In 1921 when it was founded, the CPC had more than 50 members.
About 2.31 million people joined the CPC in the first half of this year, the statement added.
"The
continuous increase of members has shown the strong vitality of the
Party and the prosperity of the Party's cause," the statement said.
The
number of primary-level Party organizations has increased from 195,000
when the PRC was founded to 4.86 million, an increase of about 24 times,
according to the statement.
Optimized composition
The
composition of Party membership has continuously improved, featuring a
rising number of young members, higher education level, and steady
growth in the proportion of female members and those from ethnic
minority groups, according to the report.
Nearly
23.68 million Party members, or 24.9 percent of the total membership,
were aged 35 or younger, 0.7 percentage point higher than the rate at
the end of 2019, with 52 percent of the Party members holding junior
college degrees or above.
As of June
5, the CPC had 27.45 million female members, accounting for 28.8 percent
of the total membership, compared with merely 11.9 percent in the early
days of New China. Meanwhile, the proportion of members from ethnic
minority groups has grown from 2.5 percent to 7.5 percent.
The
total number of Party members from ethnic minority groups has reached
7.135 million, with each of the 55 ethnic minority groups in China
having a certain number of Party members.
Workers
and peasants remain the majority of the CPC members, accounting for
33.9 percent of the total membership, with their total number currently
11.6 times the figure in 1949, data from the report shows.
Among
the CPC members, 10.61 million are management personnel in enterprises,
public institutions and social organizations, while 15 million are
professional and technical personnel, making up 11.2 percent and 15.8
percent of the total respectively.
All
the neighborhood offices in urban areas, townships, communities and
administrative villages have established primary-level Party
organizations, according to the report.
The
crucial role of local Party organizations and the exemplary role of
Party members have been given full play, the statement noted.
Since
the 18th CPC National Congress in late 2012, a total of 255,000
resident work teams have been sent to impoverished villages and more
than 3 million people have been dispatched to serve as first secretaries
and village officials to boost poverty eradication efforts on the front
lines.
More than 3.3 million
primary-level Party organizations and 39 million Party members have been
mobilized to assist the fight against COVID-19.