2011-06-24 11:18

BEIJING - A total of 32,000 people withdrew from the Communist Party of China (CPC) last year, a senior CPC official said Friday.

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Most of them were dismissed from the Party to ensure the purity of the CPC, Wang Qinfeng, deputy head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, said at a press conference.

The CPC had 80.269 million members by the end of last year, Wang said.