China in Numbers: Changing Faces of CPC Members

(Beijing) – The number of card holding members of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) reached almost 89 million, or around 6.5 percent of the country's population, in 2015, the party's annual report released on Thursday showed. But the annual growth rate in membership fell to 1.1 percent compared to 1.3 percent in 2014, it said.

The number of new recruits has declined for three consecutive years after Xi Jinping took on the reins of the party as its General Secretary in 2012.