"Green funerals" gradually attract attention to Jiangsu's introduction of multiple subsidy policies

Nanjing, March 29 (Xinhua) Ching Ming Festival is coming soon. People from all parts of the country have gone to graveyards to dedicate their friends and relatives. However, with the continuous development of the society, the Chinese people’s view of funerals is quietly changing. The traditional concept of “land” is safe. The impact of the "green funerary" concept. When the reporter visited the cemetery in Wuxi, Yangzhou, Nanjing and other places with the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Civil Affairs this week, he learned that the diversified eco-green environmental protection burial laws introduced in many provinces in Jiangsu Province are gradually gaining public recognition.

It is understood that from 2009 onwards, the Ministry of Civil Affairs proposed to actively promote funerals such as tree burial, flower burial, and lawn burial, and encouraged the advocacy of deep burying, scattering, and sea burial that do not preserve ashes. According to Zhang Hanping, deputy researcher of the Jiangsu Provincial Civil Affairs Department’s Social Affairs Office, Jiangsu is vigorously advocating the “secondary burial revolution” of “not keeping ashes”. In the next five years, Jiangsu will actively promote the introduction of policies for cities to participate in marine burials, tree burial and other ecological burials. The citizens will provide economic subsidies. At the same time, they will also speed up the construction of three-dimensional ashes storage facilities and actively advocate “green funerals” through policies and funds.

“Wuxi set up planning control lines for cemeteries and defined the scope of cemeteries through GPS, so it is impossible to expand the land for cemeteries, and Nanjing has not approved new cemeteries for nearly 20 years.” Zhang Hanping believes that “there is no place to be buried”. The push for "green funerals" is imminent.

In his opinion, with the improvement of the concept of environmental protection, “green funerals” have received the attention of the society, and the concept of “environment of the soul system, returning to the roots of the leaves, returning to nature, and descending from the shade” has also received more and more knowledge. The recognition of the person. It is gratifying that the number of people practicing green ecological burials nationwide is increasing year by year. This brings more effective land to be replaced, and the way the people are graciously worshiped is increasingly civilized.

It is understood that at present, Nanjing, Wuxi, Changzhou, Nantong, and other places in Jiangsu Province have all issued special policies for ecological burial and benefiting people, free of charge for the deceased to hold rivers and sea funeral ceremonies, and also subsidies for families participating in rivers and sea burials. Among them, the Zhangjiagang, Changshu, Haimen, and Yangzhong districts are also funded by the government to build a public-welfare Ash Ash Hall, and the ashes of local residents will be stored free of charge.

Under the guidance of these policies and propaganda, "green funerals" have gradually become accepted by the world. Take Wuxi as an example. About 30,000 people die each year in the region, and 35% of them will choose ecological burial. This proportion is relatively high. In Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, more than 100 ashes of the dead were scattered into the Yangtze River during the three local activities organized by the “splashing into the river”.

Zhang Hanping said that the burial methods of ashes and the use of degradable urn and other non-preserved ashes have gradually been promoted in Jiangsu. At present, about 20,000 ashes have been selected for ecological green environmental protection. (Finish)

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