Members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) totaled 66.355
million in June, 5.938 million more than in 1997, according to the
Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
The Party had 14.8 million members under the age of 35, accounting
for 22.3 percent of all members. Meanwhile, numbers of female
members and those from ethnic minority groups totaled 11.598
million and 4.146 million, respectively, or 17.5 and 6.2 percent of
the total.
Workers, farmers, intellectuals, soldiers and officials constituted
much of the Party. Statistics show that 52.5 percent of members had
received high school education and above, while those who had
attended college totaled 15.366 million, or 23.2 percent.
Some 11.892 million CPC members were recruited from 1997 to June
this year, of whom 75.2 percent were under the age of 35. Newly
recruited female members, those who received high school education
and above, and those from ethnic minority groups accounted for
25.4, 78.6 and 7.8 percent of the new recruits respectively.
Meanwhile, the number of people applying for CPC membership
continued to rise in the past five years. In 2001, the number of
applicants totaled 14.447 million.
Some 124,000 disqualified members were dismissed from the Party
over the past five years.
At
the same time, 2,594 members received "National Work Model" awards
and 4,350 were recognized in the May 1 Honors, two of China's top
honors for high-performing workers, accounting for 88.1 and 85.8
percent respectively of those honored.
(China
Daily September 2, 2002)