A Chinese member of the Communist Party of China shows a party badge during a contest to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the CPC in
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A Chinese member of the Communist Party of China shows a party badge during a contest to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the CPC in Yichang city, central China's Hubei province, 28 June 2016. The Communist Party of China's membership in 2015 grew at its slowest pace since 1989, its Organization Department said on Thursday (30 June 2016) in an annual bulletin ahead of the 95th anniversary of the party's founding which falls on Friday (1 July 2016). At the end of 2015, the party had added 965, 000 members, an increase of 1.1 per cent over 2014. The total number of party members reached 88.75 million by the end of 2015. Between 1990 and 2012, the year President Xi Jinping came to power, membership grew by an average of about 2.2 per cent a year, according to the department's figures. Since then, growth in new members has steadily declined. Political analysts said the lower rates reflected some of Xi's achievements in streamlining and weeding out unwanted elements. Xi became party general secretary in late 2012.