Chapter II -- Membership

Article 1

Any Chinese worker, poor peasant, lower middle peasant, revolutionary army man, or any other revolutionary element who has reached the age of eighteen and who accepts the Constitution of the Party, joins a Party organization and works actively in it, carries out the Party's decisions, observes Party discipline and pays membership dues may become a member of the Communist Party of China.

Article 2

Applicants for membership must go through the procedure for admission individually. An applicant must be recommended by two Party members, fill out an application for a Party membership and be examined by a Party branch, which must seek the opinions of the broad masses inside and outside the Party. Application is subject to acceptance by the general membership meeting of the Party branch and approval by the next higher Party committee.