On April 10, 2016, Qinlandang Church was dedicated, located on the border between China with Myanmar as well as in the southernmost part of N'Mai River. About 500 believers including Lisu and Nu ethnic groups attended the ceremony.
A local pastor introduces that it reaches to a number of over seventy Christians in Qinlandang after the immigration of the residents from inconvenient villages under the plan of constructing a new socialist countryside. There were originally only more than 10 households here.
Around 1994 there was a local gathering place where believers most of whom were Derung people worshipped God.
Believers use the Bible in Lisu languagein the services. Preachers read the Bible in Lisu language during worship while Derung language is used in sermons.
According to the book The History of Christianity in Western Yunnan written by Zhu Fade, the American missionary Justin Russell Morse firstly preached the gospel into Gongshan.
History Scholar wirtes nowadays that, Yunnan, a relatively small geographical area in China, over half of the 480,000 people are committed to Jesus Christ. Yunnan is one of the southwest provinces, and the people are Lisu, one of the large non-Chinese minority people groups. Over the past 100 years, Christianity has in some cases spread even more quickly and thoroughly among these ethnic minorities than among the majority (Han) Chinese. Whole clans and villages have come to Christ. In nearly every case, these mass movements can be traced back to seeds planted by some very influential early missionaries.
