People’s Daily Online published an article on November 26, 2010, reporting that, on November 25, 2010, the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and Ministry of Justice announced that the Chinese Communist Party had achieved 100% coverage of all of the law firms in China.
By June 2009, 3,895 of the 14,741 law firms in China had their own Party branches (26%) and 8105 law firms had joint Party branches (55%). Regarding the law firms without any Party members (19%), political instructors and coordinators had been assigned to build up the Party’s presence in each of them.
Source: People’s Daily Online, November 22, 2010
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