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China’s Communist Party seeks younger members as it looks to the future
- More than 80 per cent of those who have joined since January 2020 are aged 35 or younger
- Drive for new blood about finding ‘right successors’ to deliver goal of becoming modern socialist country by 2049
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The Communist Party has stepped up recruitment of young blood as it looks to the future, with more than 80 per cent of new members since January 2020 aged 35 or younger.
Ahead of its centenary on Thursday, China’s ruling party announced early this week that membership had reached 95 million people – up 3.5 per cent from the end of 2019.
More than 4.7 million joined between January last year and June 5 this year – many of them young Chinese.
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The party’s Organisation Department said it continued to keep a high “political standard” when recruiting members.
“As far as the building of party rank and file is concerned, all levels of party organisations have always given top priority to [maintaining a high] political standard and a tight grip over who can join to ensure the best quality and composition of our party members,” party mouthpiece People’s Daily said in a report citing the latest numbers from the department.
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“[We have continued to] absorb the best, advanced elements [of society] to the party, and strengthened education and supervision of party members,” it said.
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