CPC Grassroots Units Set Up in Private Firms in Hainan

Private enterprises in Hainan Province, south China, are quick to set up grassroots organizations of the Communist Party of China (CPC), according to the organization department of CPC Hainan Committee.

Hainan is the China's largest special economic zone, where various types of economic sectors including the private sector have seen rapid growth since the late 1980s.

There are 132,852 private enterprises employing 396,420 people, including 3,780 CPC members, in the island province. A total of 147 of the firms have the conditions to set up a Party branch, and 108, or 73.5 percent, of them have done so.

The percentage is higher than the national average, Party officials said.

According to the CPC's Constitution, a Party branch should be set up in a work unit with more than three Party members.






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