Is there any explicit rule against mass burials in Tai'an

In 2019, the Tai'an Municipal Party Committee Office and Municipal Government Office jointly issued the Implementing Opinions on Deepening the Shifting of Customs and Promoting the Construction of Green Burial to reduce the burden of funeral and burial on the public, meet the needs of the public for burial, and solve the problems of big funerals and scattered burials. According to the Opinions, in 2020, the rate of land-saving ecological burial will reach 50 percent.

"Opinions" clearly defined the work objectives, that is, by the end of 2019, the counties (cities, districts), functional areas to introduce green burial construction planning, each township built at least 1-2 township or village-level green public cemetery, no centralized interment facilities in the village (community) to give priority to the construction of the; red and white council to improve the organization, improve the service norms, and clarify the business standards, so that the phenomenon of big funerals and wastefulness can be effectively curbed. By 2020, the introduction of Taian green funeral construction planning, counties (cities, districts), functional areas were built in a county-level demonstration of green public welfare cemetery, each township built at least 2-3 township or village-level green public welfare cemetery, land-saving eco-burial rate of 50%, the masses of civilized sweeping has become the mainstream; red and white council plays a good role in the formation of a frugal funeral, civilized funeral social culture. The red and white councils are functioning well, forming a social trend of thrifty and civilized mourning. By 2022, the tree burial cemetery forest-based green public cemetery basically meet the needs of the masses funeral, land-saving eco-burial subsidy policy is generally implemented, scattered burials have been effectively managed to enhance the level of convenience services, man and nature in harmony with the *** place, the concept of green and sustainable development is y rooted in people's hearts.

Opinions of a key task is to accelerate the construction of green public welfare cemeteries, planning and construction scale according to the average annual population in the service area, calculated as a 20-year cycle of use, and reserve a certain amount of construction space. Green and ecological burial facilities are planned and constructed by making full use of barren mountains, unutilized land and traditional centralized burial sites. In terms of construction standards, the construction of small graves and landscaped cemeteries is to be insisted upon, and no illegal construction of "residential" cemeteries, luxury graves, or tombs for the living is to be permitted. New public cemeteries in urban and rural areas should be built in the form of interment of ashes in the room, tree (flower, lawn) burials; monumental burial tombstones should be taken in the form of a lying monument, the monument length of no more than 60 centimeters, the monument width of no more than 50 centimeters, the thickness of no more than 15 centimeters, the inclination of no more than 15 degrees, each grave shall not exceed 0.5 square meters, double holes shall not exceed 0.8 square meters, and the spacing of graves shall be no greater than 60 centimeters. No less than 200 grave spaces (400 cavities) are planned to be constructed per mu of land. In traditional cemeteries or burial sites, planning and construction of tree burial memorial forests, accelerate the construction of memorial facilities for scattering ashes.

It is understood that the green public welfare cemetery will implement unified standardized management, free of charge or according to the standard related fees. Counties (cities, districts) to develop public welfare cemetery construction subsidies, clear standards and requirements for the construction and management of standardized subsidies.

"Opinions" also made further clarification on the change of customs, requiring the strengthening of the construction of the Red and White Council, the Council to control the number and scale of funeral activities, strictly prohibit the indiscriminate sending of invitations, large banquets, wastefulness, and to eliminate the high amount of gifts, out of the big funerals, to do the long funerals. In addition, we must strictly govern the scattered burials, 2020 years ago, basically completed on both sides of the main highway and railroad and scenic spots, villages inside and outside the key areas of scattered graves of the relocation and transformation of the green or buried deep without leaving a grave. Taishan scenic area should be in conjunction with Taishan District, Daiyue District on the scenic area and scenic area around the existing cemetery to conduct a comprehensive inventory, registration, classification and policy, focused on remediation. The move out as soon as possible to move out, in-situ transformation of the transformation of the green, the standardized management of the clear unit, the core scenic area of Mount Tai is not allowed to increase the number of new graves. Celebrity graves, martyrs' graves and other graves that are not easy to relocate or dismantle through the transformation of greening to make it harmonize with the surrounding environment. To strictly control the increment, gradually reduce the stock, to ensure that the new ashes into the cemetery or the implementation of land-saving ecological green burial, strictly prohibit scattered burials. For the adoption of land-saving eco-burial family to give a one-time incentive, to take the lead in the implementation of non-toxic biodegradable environmentally friendly supplies of funeral service institutions or the use of relatives to give appropriate incentives or subsidies. Actively advocate a new style of civilization, civilized sacrifices, low-carbon sacrifices, leading the cultivation of green ecological and civilized funeral new ideas and new styles.