"Mr Xi oversees the party and its 92 million members — that might sound huge compared to Australia’s population of 25 million, but it is less than 7 per cent of China’s 1.4 billion people."
Its actually much less innocent than it looks like. Add an additional 100-150M for Communist Youth, a subsidiary organization and 150-250M for Mao Judend, a subsidiary for kids. Its called totalitarianism for a reason.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-01/ccp-100-years-chinese...
Honestly, that article has some shit "play with your emotions!" bits in it too but there are facts to be gleaned.