The government of China published its annual Communist Party statistics on Monday, revealing a modest 1.1 percent increase in the number of official members and a decline in the number of members under 35.

While state-run newspaper Global Times celebrated the data as proof that the Party is “continuing to improve” and “growing stronger,” Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post observed that, compared to past year, the Party grew more slowly while seeing its number of seniors grow significantly. The Chinese Communist Party’s Organization Department typically publishes these numbers in late June every year in anticipation of the anniversary of the…

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