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Transcript Of Al Jazeera Video:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Adrian Brown of Al Jazeera<\/span><\/strong>: There was once a time when China’s Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung’s little red book was the only bestseller here [in China] but now there’s another one and it’s been around a lot longer. More than a hundred and thirty million copies of the Bible have rolled off this production line, thirteen million last year alone\u2014many exported but the majority<\/strong> were for the domestic market, purchased for churches sanctioned by China’s atheist government. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Qui Zhonghui (Amity Bible Printing Chairman)<\/span><\/strong>: first principle is, serve our churches, serve our brothers and sisters [in China], then if we still have the capacity we will serve their overseas churches. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Adrian Brown of Al Jazeera<\/span><\/strong>: The factory publishes Bibles in 90 languages<\/strong> from Arabic to Russian. Such is demand for the holy book, [that] it [printing the bibles] remains around the clock operation. According to official figures, around 30 million people are Christian. Unofficially, it’s a hundred million. That’s more members than the Communist Party has. And while religion is tolerated, the government is wary of its growing popularity, a popularity reflected here [in the factory]. The factory began publishing Bibles in 1987, just a few years before the Communist Party ended, its campaign to try to wipe out religion. Today, it’s proof that there is money in religion, a contradiction that is perhaps only possible in today’s China. And in today’s China, more people are seeking meaning and spiritual comfort that neither communism nor capitalism seem to have supplied. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Qui Zhonghui (Amity Bible Printing Chairman)<\/span><\/strong>: The material is not enough before because we are human beings not animals. So when we have in our kettle enough food, we’re always thinking, what’s the value of life? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Adrian Brown of Al Jazeera<\/span><\/strong>: He (Qui Zhonghui<\/strong>) believes that 20 years from now, there could be up to a hundred and sixty million Chinese Christians and of course they’ll all need a Bible made here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Adrian Brown Al Jazeera, Nanjing<\/span><\/p>\n

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Refer to the following blogs to understand the China Christianity phenomenon:<\/span><\/p>\n