Quanzhen is the ordination tradition of most Taoist clergy in the People's Republic of China, and its institutional life cannot be described without describing the state.
The Chinese Taoist Association, founded in 1957 and based at the White Cloud Temple in Beijing, is the official body through which Taoism is administered. It operates within the state's religious affairs system; clergy must register with it to be recognised and to enjoy legal protection, and it published a searchable public register of officially recognised practitioners in 2023. It is not a church in the sense of a self-governing religious body, and describing it as one would misrepresent the arrangement.
That has consequences the tradition lives with rather than resolves. Ordination, the approval of temple appointments and the authoritative interpretation of doctrine all run through a body answerable to the state, and clergy are expected to endorse the political leadership. Taoist practice outside that structure exists in village ritual, and in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, where no such arrangement applies.
No credible figure exists for the number of Quanzhen Taoists. Chinese religious statistics are unreliable for structural reasons: affiliation is not exclusive, much practice is not registered as membership of anything, and the categories the state uses do not match the categories practitioners use. What can be said is that the great monasteries function, that the Longmen ordination lineage continues, and that the tradition's texts (the Daodejing, the Qingjing Jing, the Yinfujing, and Wang Chongyang's own discourses), are studied in them.