Since 1 March 2022 China has new rules in place covering the use of social media and the Internet by religious organizations. Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on 23 March 2022 that government officials are now being trained in the implementation of those new regulations. Relevant to such training, an article appearing in the "˜Study Times" on 21 March 2022, a Communist Party publication, claims that religion can play a role for the good of society, but only under certain conditions. As Bitter Winter commented on 24 March 2022:‚ 

Not all religions, the document explains, are capable of being Sinicized. Those who would "˜copy the foreign teaching model, take foreign values ??as their standard, and even accept the orders and domination of foreign forces" are irreformable. Worse, "˜foreign hostile forces and extremist forces use religion to infiltrate and sabotage our country", try to "˜lead our religions in a direction that deviates from the path of socialism", create "˜chaos" (recently a favorite word of Xi Jinping), and become part of a "˜political plot to deter China and subvert China". Religions that refuse to follow the "˜correct political direction" should be resolutely suppressed and eradicated.

World Watch Research analyst Thomas Muller comments: "Across the whole of China, online training sessions have been set up for graduates in religious studies and others with a similar background; it is understood that these will have the necessary expertise to understand and vet religious content. Part of these courses consist of ideological training focusing on Socialist core values and related policies adopted by the Communist Party. While the RFA article quotes regulations from the province of Zhejiang and the city of Tianjin, similar programs are also running in Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jilin, Nei Mongol, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan and Yunnan. According to an article from China Church Voices on 11 March 2022, preparations for implementing the new rules have started in all provinces. Parallel to the training sessions, pressure from the United Front Work Department has been increasing on state-registered churches to study the directives on Sinification and so gain a deeper understanding of the Marxist, scientific approach to religion. It is thus very clear that it is up to the churches in China to prove that that they are not - in the words of the Study Times - "˜irreformable". Whether or not they succeed is solely for the Communist Party to decide."