Work began in Chengtu and, two years later, in Kiatingfu,[6] with the establishment of mission stations in both cities.

[7] A church and a hospital [zh] were subsequently built in Chengtu, which was the result of a team effort by O. L. Kilborn, V. C. Hart, G. E. Hartwell, D. W. Stevenson and others.

[8] After 1900, eight more mission stations were established in Jenshow (1905), Junghsien (1905), Penghsien (1907), Tzeliutsing (1907), Luchow (1908), Chungking (1910), Chungchow (1911) and Fowchow (1913).

[9] The CMM established its own printing house, Canadian Methodist Mission Press, in Kiatingfu in 1897.

[11] The CMM was one of the four mission societies responsible for the creation of West China Union University in 1910.