The new line up of senior CPC officials from 25 provincial-level regions unveiled so far,includes more than a quarter who hold a doctorate, official media here reported.
There are 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions on the Chinese mainland, and each of them has a standing Party committee with a secretary as its leader.
The Party secretary is also the top official in the provincial-level region. The provincial-level standing committee of the Party is reshuffled every five years.
The current reshuffle of all 31 committees needs to be finished before the 18th National Congress of the CPC, which is scheduled for the second half of this year.
2012 is the year of leadership change for China as all its top leaders including President Hu Jintao were scheduled to step down after 10 years in power.
The Congress would select the new leadership later this year.
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So far, provincial-level Party congresses of 25 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have elected 327 standing committee members, China Daily reported.
Out of which 90 members or 27.5 per cent, hold doctorates.
Officials holding a master's degree make up the largest part of the core decision-making bodies.
"Undoubtedly, the trend is that more senior degree holders from top universities will bring their expertise into management," said Wang Guixiu, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC.
The new line up also includes a percentage of relatively young leaders. Three Party bosses of the 25 provincial-level regions were born since 1960 and are aged 52 or under.
Ten out of the 53 deputy Party secretaries were born in the 1960s.
Normally, a provincial standing committee only retains 12 or 13 leaders.
Liang Yanhui, another professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of CPC, said the rising number of leaders born in the 1960s will mean an increase in innovative ideas.