The number of people joining the Chinese Communist party has fallen for the first time in a decade as President Xi Jinping’s 20-month anti-corruption campaign reduces the allure of working for the authoritarian state.
For many young Chinese, joining the party and landing a government job with good benefits and the chance to make a bit on the side was the ultimate dream.
But last year just 2.4m people joined the world’s largest political party – or one quarter fewer than in 2012 – marking the smallest number of new members since 2003 and bringing total membership to 86.7m by the end of 2013.
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