Editing Chinese Communist Party (section)

====Membership demographics====
[[File:Chinese Communist Party member badge diagram.png|thumb|left|Badge worn by party members]]

{{As of|2023|December}}, individuals who identify as farmers, herdsmen and fishermen make up 26 million members; members identifying as workers totalled 6.6 million.<ref name=":4" /><ref name="2023PartyCensus" /> Another group, the "Managing, professional and technical staff in enterprises and public institutions", made up 16.2 million, 11.5 million identified as working in administrative staff and 7.6 million described themselves as party cadres.<ref name="CCPmembersoccupation">{{Cite news |author-link=Staff writer |date=30 June 2015 |title=China's Communist Party membership tops entire population of Germany |work=[[South China Morning Post]] |publisher=[[SCMP Group]] |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1829407/chinas-communist-party-enlists-million-new-members |url-status=live |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703004249/http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1829407/chinas-communist-party-enlists-million-new-members |archive-date=3 July 2015}}</ref> The CCP systematically recruits [[white-collar worker]]s over other social groups.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Angiolillo |first=Fabio |date=22 December 2023 |title=Authoritarian Ruling Parties' Recruitment Dilemma: Evidence from China |journal=[[Journal of East Asian Studies]] |language=en |pages=1–25 |doi=10.1017/jea.2023.20 |issn=1598-2408 |doi-access=free}}</ref> By 2023, CCP membership had become more educated, younger, and less blue-collar than previously, with 56.2% of party members having a college degree or above.<ref name=":8" /> {{As of|2022}}, around 30 to 35 per cent of Chinese entrepreneurs are or have been a party member.{{sfn|Marquis|Qiao|2022|p=13}} At the end of 2023, the CCP stated that it has approximately 7.59&nbsp;million ethnic minority members or 7.7% of the party.<ref name="2023PartyCensus" />