Antireligious campaigns in China

Antireligious campaigns in China refer to the promotion of state atheism, coupled with the persecution of the religious, in the People's Republic of China. These antireligious campaigns started occurring in 1949, after the Cultural Revolution, and continue today, with an emphasis on the destruction of houses of worship, such as churches. As a result of antireligious campaigns carried out between 1950 to 1979, churches, mosques and temples were closed and reeducation was coerced upon clergy. The most recent one has been instated by current party General Secretary Xi Jinping, who reemphasized that members of the Communist Party of China must "unyielding Marxist atheists" and also "instituted a broad campaign to suppress all forms of dissent." In the Chinese province of Zhejiang alone, over one-thousand two hundred Christian crosses have been removed from their steeples since 2013. In August 2017, a number of Catholic Christian priests, as well as laypeople, were injured when trying to prevent a government bulldozer from demolishing their historic church in the Shanxi province.

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