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After the founding of New China, China has experienced the development process of class struggle and economic construction. During this period, the Chinese government shifted its view on religious policy from suppression to relaxation. In other words, the process of socialist construction and the reform and opening up after the founding of new China have made the Chinese government’s leaders to take an increasingly open altitude to religious issues. Under such circumstances, Chinese Christianity has enjoyed rapid development in recent decades. During the transitional period of social structure, people attach much attention to religion because the more unstable the times is, the more psychological comfort people need. China’s traditional religions and values have been hit greatly after the Cultural Revolution. For modern Chinese who are full of chaos and unease in life, Christianity can easily become their psychological object of sustenance. As we all know, China is a socialist country led by the Communist Party of China. Nowadays, many young Chinese people do not maintain a hard-working attitude toward communism. Their moral system fails to exert power that is different from the past in terms of pragmatism and materialism. To make matters worse, more and more young people have expressed a friendly attitude toward Christianity, ringing the alarm for the Communist Party of China. Thanks to the economic boom, the Government led by Xi Jinping has gained more confidence than in the past. According to recent reports, the religious policy of the Government led by Xi Jinping appears to have reinforced its religious control policy. So what kinds of policies will the Government take in the future in respect of Chinese Christianity? Based on this, can we infer the future development direction of Christianity? This is the subject of this paper. Since the Government led by Xi Jinping comes to power, the main altitude of the Chinese government for Christianity is the sinicization of Christianity, which is closely related to the unique Chinese thought. China has had several experiences in the history of the sinicization of Christianity. Besides, the Chinese Buddhism has already gone through many twists and turns, thus successfully realizing the sinicization of Buddhism. Now no one considers Chinese Buddhism as a foreign religion, but rather as a religion of Chinese nation. Such a success has further encouraged the Chinese government and its leaders to demand that Christianity also go along the path of success that Chinese Buddhism has taken.

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新中国成立后, 中国经历了阶级斗争和经济建设的发展过程, 在此过程中, 中 国政府对宗教政策的看法从抑制转向到缓和。换言之, 新中国成立后的社会主 义建设过程和改革开放使得中国政府的领导在宗教问题上日益采取开放的态 度。在这样的情况下, 近几十年来, 中国基督教得到了突飞猛进的发展。 在社会结构转型期, 宗教会受到人们的关注, 这是因为时代越不稳, 人们越需 要得到心理上的安慰。经过文化大革命, 中国的传统宗教和价值观蒙受打击, 对 于活在充满混乱和不安的现代中国人而言, 基督教很容易成为他们心理上的寄 托对象。众所周知, 中国是中国共产党领导的社会主义国家。现在不少中国年 轻人不为共产主义保持艰苦奋斗的态度, 他们的道德体系在人们的实用主义和 物质主义面前无法发挥与过去不同的力量。雪上加霜的是, 越来越多的年轻人 对基督教表示友好的态度, 这给中国共产党敲响了警钟。 得益于经济上的大繁荣, 习近平政府得到了比过去更大的自信。最近的一些 报道显示, 习近平政府的宗教政策似乎看来加强宗教方面的管制政策。那么, 今 后的习近平政府在中国基督教方面会采取什么样的政策呢? 以此为基础, 我们 能推测今后基督教的发展方向吗? 这就是本文所关心的主题。自从习近平政府 出台到现在的情况来看, 中国政府对基督教的主要基调为基督教中国化。这与 中国人独特的中华思想具有密切的关系。中国在历史上已有几次基督教中国化的经验。不仅如此, 中国的佛教早就几经波折, 成功地实现了佛教的中国化。现 在没有人把中国的佛教看成洋教, 反而认为中国民族的宗教。这样的成功经验更 加鼓舞了中国政府及其领导要求基督教也走向中国佛教走过的成功之路。