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Of those surveyed, 4% had turned to a loan shark, or unregistered lender within the last 12 months.

A law was recently passed allowing authorities to block websites selling "unregistered dietary supplements" without a court order - but sellers have been getting around this by categorising them as "sports nutrition" instead.

The complex operation was the largest crackdown on unregistered religious activity since 2018.

Rights activists and scholars estimate that tens of millions more Chinese attend unregistered churches, also known as house churches, which do not follow state-sanctioned ideologies.

Despite this, there has been a growing movement of unregistered house churches in China.