Chinese edition YouVersion helps to distribute the Bible among cell phone users in China.

Last year, sales of smartphones in China reached 30 million. Applications that can be downloaded from the Internet to the phone, have become extremely popular among young people and adults.



YouVersion app allows users to download the entire Bible in a smartphone, theologians see this as an opportunity to distribute the Bible among the younger generation of Chinese.



The effectiveness of the spread of Bibles in China remains hotly debated topic.

The state of the church argue that the issue of Bibles in the country now covers the needs of the Scripture of 16 million Christians in China. Each month, Amity Printing Co., The country's only printing the Bible company produces one million copies of the Scriptures.



However, others believe that the real number of Christians more than 100 million, which means that the Bible is not sufficient. In addition, the information comes from the house churches, it is not enough Bibles available to, especially in poor rural areas.



Many theologians, who live abroad, agree that biblical illiteracy remains a problem among believers and nonbelievers in a country with a population of over 1.3 billion people.



YouVersion - is the idea of LifeChurch.tv, one of the 10 largest American churches. YouVersion has been downloaded more than 11 million times in over 20 languages, in 9 different programs.



In December last year, the creators of YouVersion in partnership with Chinese developers Jidutu-wiki launched a Chinese-language version of the application. And even with this current edition of the Chinese YouVersion on the blog the organization remains in a phase of refinement.



But even in this state, according to the missionaries, the application is a godsend for many people.