Chenzhou city is a multi-religion area, where five groups of Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Catholicism and Islam are distributed throughout its 11 counties, county-level cities and districts with 362 lawfully registered sites for religious activities. There are 7 key places of religious activity at the provincial level and 15 key ones at the city level respectively with a total of 308 religious workers. The city has 7 county-level religious groups and 4 city-level ones with 400 thousand adherents.