Hainan

Hainan

Hainan 海南
		POPULATION						CHRISTIANS					Total
							Evangelicals			Catholics			Christians
		Census	Census			Estimate			TOTAL			TOTAL		% of 2020
Location [1]		2000	2010	Growth		2020	TSPM	House church	Evangelicals	CPA	House church	Catholics	TOTAL	Population

Danzhou Prefecture	儋州市
Danzhou City	儋州市	835,465	932,356	96,891	11.60%	1,029,247	18,526	48,169	66,695	453	906	1,359	68,054	6.61%
		835,465	932,356	96,891	11.60%	1,029,247	18,526 [2]	48,169	66,695 [3]	453	906	1,359	68,054	6.61%

Haikou Prefecture	海口市
Longhua District	龙华区	317,508	593,018	275,510	86.77%	868,528	19,108	49,680	68,787	382	764	1,146	69,934	8.05%
Meilan District	美兰区	623,653	623,653	0	0.00%	623,653	13,720	35,673	49,393	274	549	823	50,217	8.05%
Qiongshan District	琼山区	479,958	479,958	0	0.00%	479,958	15,359 [4]	39,933	55,291	211	422	634	55,925	11.65%
Xiuying District	秀英区	156,155	349,541	193,386	123.84%	542,927	11,944	31,055	43,000	239	478	717	43,716	8.05%
		1,508,341	2,046,170	468,896	31.09%	2,515,066	60,131 [5]	156,341	216,472	1,107	2,213	3,320	219,792	8.74%

Sansha Prefecture (disputed territories in the South China Sea)	三沙市
Nansha (Spratly Islands)	南沙群岛	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Xisha (Paracel Islands)	西沙群岛	517	444	-73	-14.12%	371	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zhongsha (Macclesfield Bank)	中沙群岛的岛礁及其海域	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		517	444	-73	-14.12%	371	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%

Sanya Prefecture	三亚市
Haitang District	海棠区	68,878	68,878	0	0.00%	68,878	1,929	5,014	6,943	30	61	91	7,034	10.21%
Jiyang District	吉阳区	257,469	257,469	0	0.00%	257,469	7,209	18,744	25,953	113	227	340	26,293	10.21%
Tianya District	天涯区	269,546	269,546	0	0.00%	269,546	7,547	19,623	27,170	119	237	356	27,526	10.21%
Yazhou District	崖州区	89,515	89,515	0	0.00%	89,515	2,506	6,517	9,023	39	79	118	9,141	10.21%
		482,296	685,408	0	0.00%	685,408	19,191 [6]	49,898	69,089	302	603	905	69,994	10.21%

Counties and Cities directly administered by Hainan	海南省省直辖县级行政区划
Baisha County	白沙黎族自治县	164,494	167,918	3,424	2.08%	171,342	857	2,227	3,084	75	151	226	3,310	1.93%
Baoting County	保亭黎族苗族自治县	139,506	146,684	7,178	5.15%	153,862	769	2,000	2,770	68	135	203	2,973	1.93%
Changjiang County	昌江黎族自治县	219,502	223,839	4,337	1.98%	228,176	1,141	2,966	4,107	100	201	301	4,408	1.93%
Chengmai County	澄迈县	434,598	467,161	32,563	7.49%	499,724	2,499	6,496	8,995 [7]	220	440	660	9,655	1.93%
Ding'an County	定安县	279,335	284,614	5,279	1.89%	289,893	1,449	3,769	5,218 [8]	128	255	383	5,601	1.93%
Dongfang City	东方市	358,318	408,309	49,991	13.95%	458,300	11,458 [9]	29,790	41,247	202	403	605	41,852	9.13%
Ledong County	乐东黎族自治县	447,382	458,875	11,493	2.57%	470,368	2,352	6,115	8,467	207	414	621	9,088	1.93%
Lingao County	临高县	389,734	427,873	38,139	9.79%	466,012	2,330	6,058	8,388 [10]	205	410	615	9,003	1.93%
Lingshui County	陵水黎族自治县	303,272	320,468	17,196	5.67%	337,664	1,688	4,390	6,078	149	297	446	6,524	1.93%
Qionghai City	琼海市	449,845	483,217	33,372	7.42%	516,589	11,365 [11]	29,549	40,914 [12]	227	455	682	41,596	8.05%
Qiongzhong County	琼中黎族苗族自治县	171,598	174,076	2,478	1.44%	176,554	883	2,295	3,178 [13]	78	155	233	3,411	1.93%
Tunchang County	屯昌县	251,121	256,931	5,810	2.31%	262,741	1,314	3,416	4,729	116	231	347	5,076	1.93%
Wanning City	万宁市	513,604	545,597	31,993	6.23%	577,590	12,707 [14]	33,038 [15]	45,745 [16]	254	508	762	46,508	8.05%
Wenchang City	文昌市	509,271	537,426	28,155	5.53%	565,581	12,443 [17]	32,351	44,794 [18]	249	498	747	45,541	8.05%
Wuzhishan City	五指山市	100,836	104,119	3,283	3.26%	107,402	2,685 [19]	6,981	9,666	47	95	142	9,808	9.13%
		4,732,416	5,007,107	274,691	5.80%	5,281,798	65,939	171,441	237,380	2,324	4,648	6,972	244,352	4.63%

Totals		7,559,035	8,671,485	1,112,450	14.72%	9,783,935	163,788 [20]	425,848 [21]	589,636 [22]	4,185	8,370	12,555 [23]	602,191	6.15%
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[1]

Due to its small land mass and population, Hainan Island is the only province of China that does not use normal prefectural administrative divisions. China also claims the Paracels, Spratlys, and Zhongsha Islands Authority as a Sansha Prefecture. These three resource-rich archipelagoes, spread across a wide expanse of the South China Sea, are also claimed in total or in part by Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philppines, Malaysia and Brunei. They are likely to gain permanent populations in the near future.

[2]

16,300 believers in 24 churches: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002.

[3]

Danzhou contained 355 evangelical Christians in 1922: Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv.

[4]

13,100 believers in 44 TSPM churches: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002.

[5]

There were 8,100 TSPM believers in 27 churches in Haikou City proper in 2002: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002, not including Qiongshan and the other districts, which were later combined into the current Haikou Prefecture.

[6]

8,600 believers in 29 churches: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002.

[7]

Chengmai contained 193 evangelical Christians in 1922: Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv.

[8]

Ding'an contained 133 evangelical Christians in 1922: Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv.

[9]

7,000 believers in 23 churches: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002.

[10]

Lingao contained 80 evangelical Christians in 1922: Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv.

[11]

8,500 believers in 28 churches: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002.

[12]

Qionghai contained just 2 evangelical Christians in 1922: Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv.

[13]

Qiongshan and Qiongdong (now Qiongzhong) contained 577 evangelical Christians in 1922: Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv.

[14]

10,800 believers in 34 churches: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002.

[15]

"Wanning County may have 10,000 believers, 90 per cent of whom meet in independent house churches": Lambert, China's Christian Millions (1999), p.215.

[16]

Wanning contained 105 evangelical Christians in 1922: Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv.

[17]

10,300 believers in 34 churches: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002.

[18]

Wenchang contained 210 evangelical Christians in 1922: Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv.

[19]

1,800 believers in 6 churches: TSPM China Prayer Calendar, 2002.

[20]

Mandryk, Operation World (2010), p.234, listed a percentage which amounts to 112,000 TSPM believers in Hainan. The overall official TSPM figure for Hainan remains low, even though their own statistics by county add up to much greater than their provincial total.

[21]

Mandryk, Operation World (2010), p.234, listed a percentage which amounts to 421,900 house church believers in Hainan. Johnstone & Mandryk, Operation World (2001), p.171, listed a percentage which amounts to 360,000 house church believers in Hainan.

These figures have been confirmed independently by house church sources in Hainan, who continue to report steady growth throughout the island, including among the ethnic minority groups.

[22]

Evangelicals in Hainan
      106 (1900 - Brown, Earthen Vessells and Transcendent Power , p.199)
   1,705 (1922 - Stauffer, The Christian Occupation of China , p.xxv)
   4,078 (1927 - Brown, Earthen Vessells and Transcendent Power, p.202)
10,000 (1930 - Bridge , January-February 1988)
    4,000 (1988 - Bridge, January-February 1988)*
37,000 (1992 - Bridge, 1992)*
30,000 (1994 - Amity News Service)*
334,100 (2001 - Johnstone & Mandryk, Operation World , p.171)
50,000 (2003 - Global Chinese Ministries, April 2003)*
39,300 (2004 - Amity News Service, November-December 2004)*
533,900 (2010 - Mandryk, Operation World , p.234)

* Denotes source may only refer to registered church estimates. TSPM figures typically only count adult baptized members.

[23]

Catholics in Hainan
400 (1908 - The Catholic Encyclopedia , Vol. VIII, 1910)
6,000 (1949 - Bridge , 1989)
3,419 (1950 - Compiled from diocese statistics at www.catholic-hierarchy.org)
3,000 (1988 - Bridge, 1988)
3,000 (1989 - Bridge, December 1989)
3,000 (1994 - UCA Dispatch, 30 June-1 July, 1994)
6,000 (1997 - Charbonnier, Guide to the Catholic Church in China , p.299)
15,200 (2001 - Johnstone & Mandryk, Operation World , p.171)
8,600 (2010 - Mandryk, Operation World , p.234)

* Denotes source may only refer to registered church estimates. CPA figures typically only count adult baptized members.