Encouraging report. Perhaps as we (to a large degree) fiddle away our hard-won gains in the US and Western Europe, our brothers in the East will thrive.
In my time there in China, the Chinese officials typically didn’t care whether you had a house church or not so long as your activities were open to the public and not so hush-hush-—and as long as you weren’t political. Secrecy breeds suspicion, so when churches (even house churches) are not secretive, the Chinese usually try to leave them alone. Granted, that’s not always true, but usually.