There are now 66 million CPC members in the country.

By the end of 2001, 53,204 or 87 percent of the 61,492 neighborhood committees in 662 Chinese cities had set up CPC organizations.

The CPC Central Committee with Jiang Zemin at the center, regards reforms and Party building in state-owned enterprises as vital. The Fourth Plenum of the 15th CPC Central Committee in 1999 drew up an overall plan for further encouraging reforms and Party building in state-owned enterprises.

So far, about 70 percent of state-owned enterprises have restructured their leadership systems so the Party organization can play a core role in promoting industry development. More than 192,000 state-owned enterprises have adopted a system under which administration and management affairs become more transparent.

There were more than 71,000 CPC organizations in non-state-owned enterprises by the end of 2001, over twice as many as in 1997.

CPC organizations have also played a key role in boosting the rural economy and improving the living standards of rural people.

Between November 2000 and June this year, a total of 4,096 cadres from provincial, city and county government departments were sent to rural areas to work and resolve difficulties for rural residents.

A total of 1.769 million km of highways and 202,000 bridges were built in rural areas during this period and 74,000 administrative villages which formerly had no access to electricity were connected to a power supply.

(eastday.com October 9, 2002)