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Religion in Contemporary China
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Religious Distribution
• Five Largest Religions - Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Christianity and Islam
• 31.4% of people above the age of 16 considered themselves as religious
• 300 million people nationwide could be religious, compared to the official figure of 100 million
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Religious Distribution
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Works Cited• "Survey Finds 300m China Believers." BBC News. BBC, 02 July 2007. Web. 11 Aug. 2012.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6337627.stm>.• Wu Jiao. "Religious Believers Thrice the Estimate." Religious Believers Thrice the Estimate. China Daily, 7
Feb. 2007. Web. 23 Sept. 2012. <http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-02/07/content_802994.htm>.