New policy of rural cemetery demolition

Two months have passed in 2023, but the weather is still cold. For many elderly people, the whole first month is particularly difficult. Coupled with the epidemic, many people in the village died at the end of last year, including the beginning of this year. It is said that people died when they were buried in the soil. Although our country encourages people to practice cremation, the funeral etiquette and culture of our country for thousands of years can not be solved overnight. In recent years, in order to strengthen funeral management.

In order to promote the funeral reform, the Regulations on the Administration of Funeral was revised last year. It is clearly pointed out that measures such as "two demolition and three cleaning" should be implemented. The so-called "two demolition and three clean-ups" refers to the investigation of major events in rural areas, the investigation of illegal activities in the funeral industry, and the investigation of feudal activities carried out by funeral in individual areas. These two "demolition" refer to the demolition of luxury tombs in rural areas and "killing the field", which refers to the act of preparing tombs before people die. In fact, although the state encourages people to be cremated, the newly revised Regulations on Funeral Management does not require farmers not to be buried. On the contrary, the Regulations on Funeral Management stipulates that burial is allowed in areas that do not have cremation conditions for the time being. It is only suggested that cremation should be carried out in areas with dense population, little arable land and convenient transportation. There is no relevant clause requiring that it cannot be buried.

Legal basis:

Take Changsha Funeral Management Regulations as an example. The local people's government also gives monetary rewards to ordinary people who don't carry out soil burial, but adopt tree burial, flower burial, lawn burial, ashes scattering in the sea, etc. But there is no specific reward.