-- Neither waving flags nor shouting slogans through megaphones, most CPC members are just ordinary people performing commonplace duties.
--Community workers, teachers, welders, veterans, doctors, police officers and village officials, they are from all walks of life.
--In the eyes of foreigners, they are also sincere friends and public-spirited servants.
CANBERRA/BEIJING, July 18 -- Not many foreigners living in China have realized what an important and ubiquitous role the members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) play in their daily life.
Neither waving flags nor shouting slogans through megaphones, most CPC members are just ordinary people performing commonplace duties -- community workers, teachers, welders, veterans, doctors, police officers and village officials.
They are from all walks of life, and in the eyes of foreigners, they are also sincere friends and public-spirited servants.
Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2020 shows Zhou Qiong, a doctor from the respiratory medicine department at Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Zhou, also a Communist Party of China (CPC) member, had joined the "assault team" during the fight against COVID-19 pandemic in central China's Wuhan last year. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
NORMAL CHINESE, PUBLIC-SPIRITED
Rod Campbell, research director at Canberra's Australia Institute, spent two years at Gansu Agricultural University in northwest China. "All my colleagues were CPC members," he recalled. "I know lots of CPC members. They are normal Chinese people."
He has seen misunderstandings in Western media about CPC members. "The simplistic nature of reporting ... is problematic. It doesn't really represent how China works."
