Wednesday, June. 6, 2001 China's government has recently been trumpeting the fact that an increasing
number of young Chinese are joining the Communist Party. By the end of last
year, 65 million Chinese were party members, and nearly half of them were
under the age of 45. Recruitment has been particularly successful on
university campuses, particularly at Beijing's top schools like Peking
University and Qinghua University. An article in the English-language official
mouthpiece, the China Daily, goes on to quote a 35-year-old director of one of
China's largest science parks,...
