Time Line: Central Government Legislation on Religion

Prior Restraints on Religious Publishing in China

Government Increases Controls Over Muslim Pilgrimages

Beijing Municipality Amends Local Religious Regulation

Anhui Government Amends Provincial Religious Regulation

SARA Director Calls for Continued Controls on Religion

Head of Religious Association: Religious Adherents Not Arrested Due to Their Faith

Islamic Congress Establishes Hajj Office, Issues New Rules

Zhejiang and Other Provincial Governments Issue New Religious Regulations

New Religious Exchange Association Disseminates Government Views of Religion

Selected Regulations on Religion

National Regulations

Circular on Comprehensively Examining Publications Regarding Islam (Chinese Text)

Circular of Provisions on Self-Funded Pilgrimages (Chinese Text)

Detailed Implementing Rules for the Provisions on the Management of the Religious Activities of Foreigners within the PRC (Chinese Text)

Implementing Measures on the Management of the Registration of Religious Social Organizations (Chinese Text)

Measures for the Yearly Inspection of Venues of Religious Activity (Chinese Text)

Measures on the Examination, Approval, and Registration of Venues for Religious Activity (CECC Full Translation)

Provisions on the Management of the Religious Activities of Foreigners within the PRC (Chinese Text)

Provisions Regarding the Administration of Contracts to Print Bible Texts (CECC Full Translation)

Regulation on Religious Affairs (Chinese Text)

Local Regulations

Anhui Province Regulation on Religious Affairs (1999) (Chinese Text)

Anhui Province People's Congress Standing Committee Decision on Amending the "Anhui Province Regulation on Religious Affairs" (2006) (Chinese Text)

Beijing Municipality Regulation on Religious Affairs (2002) (Chinese Text)

Beijing Municipality Regulation on Religious Affairs Amendments (2006) (Chinese Text)

Chengdu City Provisions on Halal Foods Management (Chinese Text)

Hebei Province Regulation on Halal Foods Management (Chinese Text)

Hebei Province Regulation on Religious Affairs (Chinese Text)

Heilongjiang Regulation on the Management of Religious Affairs (Chinese Text)

Henan Province Regulation on Religious Affairs (Chinese Text)

Jilin Province Regulation on Halal Foods Management (Chinese Text)

Shandong Province Regulation on the Management of Religious Affairs (As Amended November 25, 2004) (Chinese Text)

Shandong Province Regulation on the Management of Religious Affairs (2000) (Chinese Text)

Shanghai Municipality Regulation on Religious Affairs (as Amended April 21, 2005) (Chinese Text)

Shanghai Municipality Regulation on Religious Affairs (1995) (Chinese Text)

Shanxi Province Regulation on Religious Affairs (Chinese Text)

Zhejiang Province Regulation on Religious Affairs (As Amended March 29, 2006) (Chinese Text)

Zhejiang Province Regulation on Religious Affairs (1997) (Chinese Text)

CECC Annual Reports

2005 Annual Report

• Complete Report
• Religious Freedom Section

2004 Annual Report

• Complete Report
• Religious Freedom Section

• Complete Report
• Freedom Religious Section

• Complete Report
• Religious Freedom Section

CECC Hearings

Religious Freedom in China (November 18, 2004) 

Transcript

Statements by Members of the Commission

• Congressman Jim Leach

Statements of Panelists

• Ms. Preeta D. Bansal
  Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
  Washington, D.C.

• Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol
  International Campaign for Tibet,
  Washington, D.C.

• Pastor Bob Fu
  President, China Aid Association
  Midland, TX

• Mr. Joseph Kung
  President, The Cardinal Kung Foundation
  Stamford, CT

• Dr. Pitman Potter
  Director, Institute of Asian Research and Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
  Vancouver, B.C.

Will Religion Flourish Under China's New Leadership? (July 24, 2003)

Transcript

Statements of Panelists

• Mr. Randall G. Schriver
  Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
  Washington, D.C.

• Ms. Felice D. Gaer
  Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
  Washington, D.C.

• Dr. Joseph Fewsmith
  Professor and Director of East Asia Interdisciplinary Studies, Boston University
  Boston, MA

• Mr. Charles D. Lovejoy, Jr.
  Associate, U.S. Catholic China Bureau
  South Orange, NJ

• Dr. David Aikman
  Former Senior Correspondent, TIME Magazine
  Washington, D.C.

• Dr. Jacqueline Armijo
  Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
  Palo Alto, CA

CECC Roundtables

Unofficial Religions in China: Beyond the Party Rules (May 23, 2005)

Transcript

Statements of Panelists

• Professor Patricia M. Thornton
  Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College
  Hartford, CT

• Professor David Ownby
  Director of the Center of East Asian Studies, University of Montreal
  Montreal, Canada

• Professor Robert P. Weller
  Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University
  Boston, MA

China's New Regulation on Religious Affairs: A Paradigm Shift? (March 14, 2005)

Transcript

Statements of Panelists

• Dr. Carol Lee Hamrin
  Consultant and Research Professor, George Mason University
  Fairfax, VA

• Ms. Mickey Spiegel
  Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch
  New York, NY

• Professor Daniel H. Bays
  Professor of History and Head of the Asian Studies Program, Calvin College
  Grand Rapids, MI

Catholics and Civil Society in China (September 17, 2004)

Transcript

Statements of Panelists

• Sister Janet Carroll
  M.M. Program Associate
  U.S. Catholic China Bureau

• Professor Richard Madsen
  Professor of Sociology
  University of California at San Diego 

Practicing Islam in Today's China: Differing Realities for the Uighurs and the Hui (May 17, 2004)

Transcript

Statements of Panelists

• Professor Jonathan N. Lipman
  Department of History
  Mount Holyoke College

• Gardner Bovingdon
  Assistant Professor of Central Eurasian Studies
  Indiana University at Bloomington

• Dr. Kahar Barat
  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
  Yale University

Transcript

Statements of Panelists

• Dr. Paul Marshall
  Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House

• Mr. Thomas E. Quigley
  U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

• Mr. Joseph M.C. Kung
  President, The Cardinal Kung Foundation 

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