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Shanghai high school students join CPC this year (11/11/2002)
A total of 331 high school students have joined the Communist Party
of China (CPC) in Shanghai, the nation's rising economic center,
so far this year, the municipal education authority said.
During the same period, more than 10,000 high school students applied
for CPC membership, and 17.1 percent of the students participated
in study of the CPC constitution, the authority said.
Five years ago, only about 60 high school students joined the party
every year and about 2,000 submitted applications.
"I feel that the political enthusiasm of high school students
has been rising over recent years, and their identification with
the Party is getting stronger and stronger," said Yang Yueming,
a teacher with Datong High School.
Shi Yang, a freshman at Shanghai's Fudan University, joined the
party early this year when he was still a student at Datong.
"The great changes taking place around me convinced me that
China is marching forward on the right road under the leadership
of the Party. I have joined the party so that I can play a bigger
role in China's modernization process," Shi said.
More than 90 percent of the 80-odd elite high schools in the city
have set up youth communism schools and youth party schools, the
education authority said.
More than 400 party constitution study groups and 300 Deng Xiaoping
theory study groups are now active in these schools, the authority
said.
(xinhua)
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