China's City of Churches Brought to Heel

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凯瑞, 记者博客：被屈服的中国 '教堂之城.' BBC Chinese, May 5, 2014
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chin ... rch_violation.shtml

, which is translated from

Carrie Gracie, China's City of Churches Brought to Heel. BBC, May 4, 2014
www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-27279762

Quote:

“Wenzhou people are as competitive on Sunday as every other day of the week.This city on the south-east coast is famous in China as a hardworking hive of capitalism. But it is also home to perhaps a million Christians.

“In most other Chinese cities the dominant buildings belong to the Communist Party, but in Wenzhou it's the churches which command attention; many of them as big as cathedrals

Note: bring/call sth/sb to heel
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/bring-call-sth-sb-to-heel