According to Article 68 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Urban and Rural Planning Law:
After the competent department of urban and rural planning has made a decision to order the construction to stop or dismantle it within a time limit, if the party concerned fails to stop the construction or dismantle it within a time limit, the people's government at or above the county level where the construction project is located may instruct the relevant departments to take measures such as sealing up the construction site and forcibly demolishing it.
Take Zhejiang Province as an example:
Up to now, Zhejiang has demolished 225 million square meters of illegal buildings and transformed 269 million square meters of old residential areas, old factories and villages in the city. Among them, demolition and religious conversion accounted for 0.26% of the total, and illegal Christian buildings only accounted for 2.3%. This series of demolition work since last year has caused some social disputes and has been isolated and focused in foreign media reports.
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In China, religious belief is free. At the same time, the relationship between religious organizations and society, the way they exert influence on society and spread themselves, are not internal religious affairs, but often involve public affairs, so some of them need to be brought into state management.
This is simple and necessary, because if religious activities get out of control in China, all kinds of religious chaos in the world will be brought to this country sooner or later.
The most important thing for the benign development of religion is to respect secular laws and rules. There are illegal religious facilities in some places in China, or large-scale "underground churches" are deliberately set up outside the registration system, which should not be done. This kind of behavior is easy to cause misunderstanding and becomes the source of serious disharmony between these religious communities and the surrounding society.
Because some local governments lack experience in managing religion, and because western forces often give orders from the outside, local governments often can't or dare not manage it. Some religious believers also have a "sense of privilege" and pay little attention to relevant laws and regulations. For example, developers who build shopping malls usually dare not exceed the approval to expand the scale of construction.
However, those who build churches get less approval, are more "fair" and openly resist management.
Orthodox religion advocates goodness. In China, a huge and complicated society, the goodness of religious communities is to abide by laws and regulations and maintain harmony with neighboring communities and the whole city. China is a society without ethnic and religious beliefs, but all kinds of religions are actually developing rapidly.
It is not easy for the government to manage and coordinate the relations and functions of religions at all levels in the process of modernization. Understanding the country and cooperating with management are intrinsically consistent with the teachings of all legitimate religions.
People's Network-Religious illegal facilities are also illegal buildings.