And since many professors refuse to comply with these regulations, they have chosen to teach in one of the hundreds of underground Bible schools throughout China.
As of 2007, Christian Aid has helped to establish 132 Bible institutes in China — the first of which was founded in 1990.
Christian Aid has also partnered with a Chinese ministry leader who has helped to plant more than 600 underground Bible training centers in China. For 21 years, he worked to complete the most comprehensive theological curriculum available in Chinese. Christian Aid supplied the funds for the printing cost of the training material, which is being provided to more than 600,000 Chinese Christian workers.
Christianity’s historical image in China
What causes the CCP to view Chinese believers as the enemy?
This animosity toward Christianity seems to have less to do with the essence of Christianity and more to do with its perceived association with invasive "Western" culture.
In the early 1990s, the official press published concerns that Christian activity might generate opposition to the regime and eventually undermine communist rule in China.
China’s historical experience with "Western" countries has been one of victimization and exploitation.
When the British imported Indian opium to China, Chinese officials were opposed. But after their defeat in the Opium wars, China was forced to sign a treaty that allowed free opium trading and the admission of Christian missionaries. As opium and foreign missionaries poured into the country, the two were inevitably and unfortunately linked.