The Communist Party of China (CPC) has seen the current campaign of promoting the Scientific Outlook on Development as an opportunity to establish more branches in the non-public sector.

Non-public sector is of great importance to the building of Party organizations at the grassroots level, said a circular jointly issued by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the leading group for the campaign.

A Party branch should be set up in a non-public institution when it has three or more CPC members. Leaders of the new Party branches could be elected among the Party members or nominated by upper level Party organizations, the circular said.

The CPC currently has about 76 million members.