[Cringing Negativism Network]

I don’t know about that.

I don’t believe religion is prominent in China.

At all.

[Star Traveler]

Christianity in China
http://www.billionbibles.org/china/how-many-christians-in-china.html

[Star Traveler]

Beijing attacks claim China could become ‘world’s most Christian nation’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10787236/Beijing-attacks-claim-China-could-become-worlds-most-Christian-nation.html

The Communist Party has hit out at predictions in The Telegraph that China is on course to become the world’s biggest Christian congregation, in a sign of Beijing’s deep unease at the rapid spread of Christianity within its borders.

In a recent interview with the paper, Fenggang Yang, a leading expert on religion in China, said the number of Chinese Protestants could swell to around 160 million by 2025 with the total number of Christians exceeding 247 million by 2030.

That would see China move ahead of Mexico, Brazil and the United States as the world’s biggest Christian community.

Christianity is now growing so fast that there is a “serious shortage” of churches, Prof Yang said. “The distance between pews in Chinese churches is narrower than between airplane economy seats.” However, state media yesterday played down the size of China’s congregations. The Global Times cited a Peking University study according to which there were 26 million Protestants in China in 2012.

Academics and members of China’s “house church” movement believe the true figure is closer to 80 million since most Christians are forced to worship in underground churches.

“We multiple the official number by three,” said one house church leader whose congregations do not feature in government statistics.

[Dr. Sivana]

I don’t believe religion is prominent in China.

At all.

I never said it was particularly prominent. The country is still Communist. But a small fraction in China is a sizable chunk still. Numbers stand at between 23 and 100 million split roughly even between Catholics (Roman Catholic and "Patriotic") and Protestants(official and irregular). It is large enough that the Chicoms are buldozing church buildings and beating up groups of Christians.