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Shaoxing in East China's Zhejiang province holds light shows every day from 19:00 to 23:00 at China Textile City to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. [Photo/shaoxing.com.cn]

As of June 5, Zhejiang was home to a total of 4.2 million CPC members, who were affiliated to 240,000 grassroots branches of the CPC. 

Nearly 200,000 people joined the CPC between Jan 1, 2020 and June 5, 2021, more than half of whom did so over the first half of this year.

There were 52,000 CPC members in Zhejiang when the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949.

Wu Ronggen, a veteran of the People's Liberation Army, shares his stories about the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) to students at Keqiao Library in Shaoxing. [Photo/shaoxing.com.cn]

Children paint on red boats, which honor the conclusion of the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1921, in Yuecheng district on June 22. [Photo/shaoxing.com.cn]

After a century of glorious history, the CPC has developed into the largest Marxist ruling party in the largest socialist country in the world with over 95 million Party members.

Today, China's per capita GDP exceeds $10,000. China has the world's largest middle-income group and the world's largest social security system.