These wrong doings were corrected 20 years ago. Since then, China has adopted a policy of reform and opening to the outside world, and is making efforts to speed up democracy and build up her legal system, including a right attitude toward religion, by re-implementing the previously correct policy of freedom of religious belief in a process of normalizing our country's development. Since 1979, not only have religious activities been resumed but rapid developments within the different religions have also taken place within China. At present, there are a total of more than 100 million religious believers, more than 85,000 places for worship, over 3,000 religious organizations, about 300,000 clergy and 74 religious schools or seminaries all around China. Each religion has its own umbrella organization.
Public worship is carried on normally and believers can also worship at home.
Besides Scriptures and books published by various religions, clergy are trained, and friendly exchanges take place widely among religious organizations and personnel with their international counterparts. Protestant Christianity came to China mainly through the protection afforded it by unequal treaties imposed by foreign forces. The church was under the dominion of foreign mission boards in the areas of administration, finance and personnel. Though some positive results were achieved in the previous hundred or so years, by 1949 there were still only 700,000 Christians in China. Since the 1980's, the Protestant Church has printed 20 million copies of the Bible, including the Bible in Korean, Miao, Lisu, Jingpo and other minority languages.