Membership of CPC tops 90M

The membership of the 98-year-old Communist Party of China (CPC) has exceeded 90 million, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee said on Sunday. About 34% of Party members were born in the 1980s and 1990s, and nearly half hold junior college degrees or above, the department said in a report released ahead of the anniversary of the founding of the CPC on July 1.

The CPC had 90.59 million members at the end of last year, an increase of 1.03 million from the end of 2017, and 4.61 million primary-level Party organizations, up by 39,000, according to the report.

It has seen its membership grow from more than 50 when it was founded in 1921 to 4.49 million when the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, and now to more than 90 million.