China is officially a "secular state". The PRC, in all their constitutions, from first to present a valid always the right to religious freedom enshrined.

The worship, however, are still limits, even if the relevant rules are more liberal manner than in the early 1980s. For the Chinese government is religion as a private matter. It is all free, alone or in community with others, to pray, to recite scriptures, to hold religious services, to baptize or fairs to read. It is the churches, however, does not allow the policy to comment and criticize. The social figure of the Christian churches is the state suspect.

Demands of the state of the churches to prevent the churches instrumentalize can to destabilize the national sovereignty, the political system or social peace. For the state is important that churches, like all organizations in China, to accept that in social disputes, such as contraception or abortion, the line of the Communist Party of China and not that of a church leader in China is crucial. Therefore, in practice, the restricted freedom of religion, when religious activities, after reading the government to disturb public order, foreign rulers were controlled or in opposition to the government would.

Opposition in China is only within the communist party allowed. In the social public has the religion is very little space. Beyond the religious activities are now building more and more Christian churches small diaconal institutions on the development of a politically relevant Christian social ethics is not in sight. It is also not unusual for a creditor to several, for example, the Buddhist and the Protestant faith professes. Because of these organizations are very loose estimates of the number of Christians from 50 million to 90 million.The number of Christians in China is increasing in recent years strongly.