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90,000
Beijing college students join CPC in 13 years (11/14/2002)
Around 90,000 Beijing college and university students joined the
Communist Party of China (CPC) in the last 13 years, Beijing Daily
reported Thursday.
The newspaper quoted the municipal CPC committee as saying that
6.1 percent of undergraduates in 53 local institutions of higher
learning are CPC members currently, while 31 percent of postgraduates
have joined the Party.
The number of new student recruits increases annually, with official
figures showing 9,369 joined the Party last year, compared with
861 in 1990 and 5,571 in 1994. The number for the first half of
this year was 8,564.
"To join the Party is to believe in communism," Gong
Lin, a student and new Party member at Beijing University, was quoted
as saying. "I would like to devote myself to the cause of the
Party."
Gong donated 12,575 yuan (US$1,520), earned through a part-time
job, to the Party as her first membership dues.
xinhua
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