The average age of members of the new Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee is 57, with 30 women and 38 members of ethnic minority groups. A total of 98.1% of them have university degrees or higher, with 25 scholars from the Chinese Academy Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering joining the CPC Central Committee. And most of them are top officials at the provincial level or higher and military units, while others come from the prefecture-level and military, financial enterprises, State-owned enterprises, higher learning institutions and research and development institutions. Also included are representatives of farmers and workers, exemplary personnel of the People’s Liberation Army, and experts and scholars.