Chinese New Hymnal

The Chinese New Hymnal was begun being edited in the 1980s when persecution against religion, especially against Christianity, during the Cultural Revolution subsided and churches were reopened, with the intention to collect both domestic and overseas hymns.

The Protestant churches in the present-day China almost exclusively select the worship songs from this hymn book.

A new printing of the Chinese Union Version Bible by the Amity Foundation in 2004 also incorporates this hymnal under the same volume.

An additional collection of 200 songs used in worship have been compiled and published as a separate volume in October 2009.

About a quarter of the titles are locally made and the remainder are imported and Chinese lyrics set.