Authorities in China's Zhejiang province have recently launched a province-wide operation to install surveillance cameras in the majority of Protestant Christian churches. In cases where church followers offered resistance, the officials intervened to cut off water and electricity. Radio Free Asia reported on May 24, 2017, that the authorities had that day cut off public utilities to a Protestant Christian church near Wenzhou that refused to allow police to install surveillance cameras on its premises. They also cut off utilities to the church in Rui'an Gesan village in Zhejiang's Wenzhou city on May 24, citing "health and safety" regulations.

(Comment: In 2015, Zhejiang province authorities had launched a movement to pull down crosses atop churche buildings.)