The Organization Department of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee released a statistical report on the province's Party members on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, which falls on July 1.

As of June 5, Zhejiang was home to a total of 4.2 million CPC members, who were affiliated to 240,000 grassroots branches of the CPC. Those who are aged below 35 and who hold higher education degrees accounted for 28.1 percent and 54.3 percent of the total respectively. A total of 32.9 percent of the province's CPC members were females.

In terms of occupation, the province's CPC members included 418,000 skilled workers, 1.13 million farmers, 1.26 million staff members at enterprises and social organizations, 305,000 government staff members, 144,000 students, as well as 738,000 retirees.

Nearly 200,000 people joined the CPC between Jan 1, 2020 and June 5, 2021, more than half of whom did so over the first half of this year.

There were 52,000 CPC members in Zhejiang when the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949.

Cadres in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province repeat their oath of joining the CPC on a visit to the city's Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall in May. [Photo/zj.zjol.com.cn]