By LCC regulations, these four synods were to be renamed according to the area that they worked in (see names in parentheses above). However, since both the Rhenish and Basel missions have been at work for more than 100 years, and the nature of the work of the Daoyouhui had been very different, it was difficult to decide on which names that the new Synods were to adopt. However, as the political situation in China was changing, this matter was eventually dropped altogether.