The reform content of funeral reform

The basic task of funeral reform is to socialize funeral services in cities and towns and gradually solve the funeral problems of urban residents; In rural areas, it is necessary to eliminate the phenomenon of random burial and the old funeral custom of feudal superstition, and realize the burial of remains in cemetery and civilized funeral custom. It is embodied in the following aspects:

1. Establish various collective cemeteries. Generally, the village is the unit, established by the villagers' committee, and it is a public cemetery; It is the tertiary industry for funeral institutions to establish county-level collective cemeteries to solve the problem of burying the dead bodies of urban residents. At present, there are more than 654.38+million public welfare cemeteries and more than 400 operating cemeteries in China.

2. Implement industry management on the production and sales of funeral supplies. 1989 In May, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the the State Council Bureau of Religious Affairs jointly issued the Notice on Stopping Feudal Superstition Activities in Funeral, requiring the Funeral Management Office (Institute) to clean up and rectify the factories, shops and stalls that produce and sell funeral supplies, and conduct regular inspections; Then clean up and collect, and ban unlicensed illegal business; Thirdly, the funeral industry should establish its own production point of funeral supplies, realize industry management, and effectively stop feudal superstition and funeral activities.

3. Establish and play an active role in the reform of rural funeral customs. The Council for weddings, funerals and weddings is a mass autonomous organization, which has played an active role in advocating civilized and thrifty funeral management and is a force that cannot be ignored.

4. Establish a burial funeral home. Establish burial and funeral service facilities, and provide funeral supplies, mourning places, pick-up and burial services for the masses. Burial funeral homes can be set up in county towns, and then funeral service stations can be set up in densely populated towns and villages. In the village, the Red and White Affairs Council will undertake the task of handling funerals for the masses, thus forming a complete funeral service network.

5. Carry out the work of burying the flat grave and returning it to the field. For cultivated land, both sides of public railways, scenic spots and unsightly graves, if it is really impossible to move, green coverage should be carried out. This is conducive to the realization of cultivated land without graves and the expansion of cultivated land area.

Strengthening funeral management and promoting funeral reform are the needs of building a harmonious Gan Tang and a new Gan Tang. The Regulations on Funeral Management promulgated by the State Council 1997 points out: "The policy of funeral management is to actively and step by step carry out cremation, reform burial, save funeral land, get rid of funeral customs and advocate civilized and thrifty funeral management." My town has carried out funeral reform with the main contents of improving cremation rate, cleaning up mass burial, strengthening ashes management, innovating funeral and speeding up the construction of funeral facilities.

Implementing the policy of benefiting the people and promoting the standardization of green funeral and funeral services are the three key contents of China's funeral reform in 20 10.

The Report on the Development of Funeral Services in China (20 10) pointed out that in 2009, the challenges of funeral services in China turned into opportunities, scientific development reached a new level, cemetery management achieved new breakthroughs, safety and cleanliness achieved new results, work style construction took new measures, green funeral services made new progress, and personnel training reached a new level. At the same time, there are also some problems, such as insufficient public finance investment, unsuitable basic service ability and level, nonstandard market-oriented service and imperfect supervision of material sales market. 20 10 under the overall situation of "ensuring growth, people's livelihood and stability", the funeral industry will take the opportunity of implementing the Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Further Deepening the Funeral Reform and Promoting the Scientific Development of the funeral industry, establish a basic funeral service subsidy system, improve the management mechanism combining legal supervision with industry self-discipline, increase government investment in the construction of funeral service facilities and equipment, speed up the construction of funeral services and technical standards, and strengthen the construction and construction of funeral institutions.

The report emphasizes that in 20 10, the funeral industry in China should intensify its work in the following three major areas and strive for a breakthrough:

Increase the implementation of Huimin funeral policy.

Implement the guiding opinions and increase the implementation of the funeral and benefit policy. 20 10 it will be an important task for the national funeral reform to implement the guiding opinions of the Ministry of civil affairs on further deepening funeral reform and promoting the scientific development of funeral undertakings. All localities should take the formulation and implementation of funeral policies for the benefit of the people as the focus of implementing the Guiding Opinions. The reasons are as follows: First, it is the urgent desire of the people, especially the people in difficulty, to implement the policy of benefiting the people through funeral and burial. For a long time, China has only given funeral subsidies to employees of government organizations, enterprises and institutions, and farmers and employees without units do not enjoy this treatment. This is not in line with the principle of equalization of public services under the market economy and must be reformed. At the same time, with the increase in the cost of funeral services, the burden of funeral expenses for the needy people has increased, and necessary assistance is urgently needed.

Huimin funeral policy becomes "people's livelihood project"

Further safeguarding and improving people's livelihood is the overall work of governments at all levels in 20 10, and the central and local governments will increase investment in areas related to people's livelihood. Taking this as an opportunity, the funeral policy for Huimin was incorporated into the local "livelihood project" and put on the government's annual work plan, which not only enriched the content of safeguarding people's livelihood, but also provided financial guarantee for the implementation of the funeral policy for Huimin. Third, there is successful experience in implementing the funeral policy for the benefit of the people. Therefore, in order to reduce the economic burden of the people and let more people benefit from the policy, it is suggested to speed up the establishment and improvement of the government subsidy system for basic funeral services for people in urban and rural areas, explore the relevant mechanism for the government to pay for basic funeral services for residents in the jurisdiction according to local conditions, and gradually establish and improve the funeral assistance guarantee system.

Vigorously promote green burial methods.

In the field of burial, it is necessary to vigorously promote the experience of burial reform in Anhui Province, introduce corresponding policies and regulations, incorporate burial reform into the government's target management, increase policy support and capital investment in burial reform, advocate that the remains are buried deeply, leaving no graves and occupying no cultivated land, and focus on controlling the phenomenon of littering, so as to ensure the healthy and orderly progress of burial reform. In rural cremation areas, it is necessary to promote the construction of rural public welfare cemeteries, strengthen law enforcement, and manage "two funerals with coffins" according to law. Carrying out green burial methods, such as flower burial, tree burial, lawn burial, wall burial and sea burial, is the development direction of funeral reform in the world. In western developed countries, it has changed from traditional burial to environmental burial, such as flower burial, tree burial, lawn burial and wall burial. In our country, the new burial law has not been accepted by people, and it is in the stage of trial and popularization. 20 10 to study and formulate policies to advocate, encourage and support new burial methods, study and formulate corresponding service specifications and technical standards, and promote new burial methods that occupy little or no land according to local conditions, such as flower burial, tree burial, lawn burial and wall burial.

Establish a supervision mechanism for the promotion and implementation of standards.

Funeral industry is a high-tech industry, and there must be a corresponding standardization system to regulate and restrict it. Objective that standardization of funeral industry in China is in the initial stage. The overall situation is that the development of standards has made great progress, the implementation of standards has made slow progress, and the supervision mechanism for the promotion and implementation of standards has not yet been established. As a result, the implementation of funeral industry standards is weak or even universal, which directly restricts the scientific and technological progress of funeral industry. 20 10 focuses on the establishment of the supervision mechanism for the promotion and implementation of funeral technical standards, and puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions to establish this mechanism, so as to provide scientific basis for the establishment of the supervision mechanism for the promotion and implementation of funeral industry standards.