Chinese communist party membership nears 78 Million

Wang Qinfeng, deputy head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, said at a press conference.Communist Party of China (CPC) said Monday that the number of CPC members has increased to almost 78 million over the past six decades.

 

By the end of last year, the CPC had a total of 77.99 million members, about 116 times of the figure in 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded,he added.

Last year, more than 20 million people applied to join the CPC and the Party recruited about 2 million new members, Wang said.

Of the total 78 million CPC members, about 18.5 million were under 35 years old, and close to 28 million held a college degree or above, he said.

Wang said more than 640,000 of the country's 2.77 million enterprises, including 438,000 non-public enterprises, had set up their own grassroots CPC party organs.

He said CPC members had taken the lead in helping China host the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics in 2008, celebrate the 60th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China last year, and in the relief work of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 and the Yushu earthquake in April this year.

CPC members in Qinghai alone had donated more than 27 million yuan (about 3.97 million U.S dollars) in "special membership fees" to help with Yushu quake relief, he said. 

 CPC Members' age distribution

Age	Members	% of Total
Below 35	18.47 million	23.7%
36-45	16.88 million	21.6%
46-59	22.84 million	29.3%
Over 60	19.81 million	25.4%

 

CPC Members' career distribution

Careers	Members
Industrial Workers	6.94million
Workers in Farm, Animal husbandry and fishing	24.02 million
Government/CPC Employees	6.6 million
Management & Professionals	17.73 million
Students	2.27 million
Retirees	14.53 million
Others	5.92 million

• By the end of 2007, Chinese Communist Party has 74.153 million members. Among these members, female shares 20.4%, and 32.4% members have college or higher education, and 23.7% members are below 35 years old. (July 1, 2009)
   
• Total Number of Branches: Over 3.3 millions (grass-roots branches)

• The Increase of Total Numbers of CPC

Year	Total CPC Members	Remarks
1997	60.417 million
1998	61.877 million
1999	63.221 million
2000	64.517 million
2001	65.749 million
2002	66.355 million	(June)
2005	70.80 million	(Dec.)
2007	73.36 million	(Oct.)
2009	77.995 million	(Dec.)