To implement the spirit of instructions from the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government regarding funeral management, as well as the requirements of the 15th expanded meeting of the Municipal Government’s Party Leadership Group, the Maoming Civil Affairs Bureau convened a working meeting with member units of the Municipal Funeral Reform Leading Group on the afternoon of June 9. The meeting summarized progress in funeral reform efforts, analyzed existing problems, and discussed a special action plan to increase the city’s cremation rate, ensuring effective implementation of all work objectives. Zheng Dongya, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, and Deputy Director Li Guoliang attended the meeting. The meeting conveyed directives from the principal leaders of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government concerning funeral management, along with the spirit of the 15th expanded session of the Municipal Government’s Party Leadership Group. It reported on the city’s funeral management activities since the beginning of this year, identified current challenges, and set forth specific tasks related to launching a special campaign against illegal cemetery construction, intensifying infrastructure development for funeral reforms, strengthening public awareness campaigns promoting new customs, and accelerating the establishment of public-benefit cemeteries. Subsequently, representatives from member units of the Municipal Funeral Reform Leading Group exchanged views on the proposed plan to raise the city’s cremation rate and offered suggestions for revisions. The meeting emphasized the importance of fully recognizing the significance of funeral reform, adopting a problem-oriented approach, and addressing shortcomings such as inadequate infrastructure. Participants were urged to align their efforts with practical realities, clearly define goals and tasks, accelerate funeral reform initiatives, and reverse the passive, lagging state of funeral management. Furthermore, they were encouraged to enhance overall coordination, leverage collaboration among members of the Municipal Funeral Reform Leading Group, pool resources, resolutely eliminate outdated burial practices, and foster a culture of civility and modernity. The meeting called upon all relevant departments to earnestly implement the spirit of the municipal conference, focus on key reform priorities, actively coordinate with higher-level authorities, formulate concrete and feasible reform measures, vigorously address prominent issues in the funeral sector, comprehensively advance integrated governance of funeral reform, and strive to usher in a new phase of funeral reform. Leaders of the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, responsible officials, heads of relevant divisions, and principal representatives from member units of the Municipal Funeral Reform Leading Group attended the meeting. Jiangxi Xinde Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd., as a professional manufacturer, supplier, and seller of branded funeral products and storage racks for village-level ecological columbaria, boasts an extensive sales network.

On the afternoon of June 12, staff and cadres of the First Funeral Home kicked off the “Dragon Boat Festival Culture, Classic Recitation” program in the conference room. As contestants recited “Qinyuanchun: Snow” and “Li Sao,” the audience was deeply moved by the arduous journey of revolutionary pioneers who risked life and death to found the revolutionary cause during the smoke‑filled years of war, as well as by the older generation of revolutionaries’ profound love for their country’s beautiful landscapes, their unwavering commitment to the revolutionary cause, and their confident belief in its ultimate victory.

On June 4, 2021, the “Qingdao Municipal Funeral Home Seminar on Innovative Management and Service Practices” was held at the municipal funeral home. The meeting was attended by 18 participants, including Huang Zhen, Director of the Social Affairs Division of the Qingdao Civil Affairs Bureau; directors of various funeral homes; representatives from several funeral equipment manufacturers; and staff from the association’s secretariat. The seminar was organized by the Social Affairs Division, with the association and the municipal funeral home serving as the co‑organizers.

To implement the “Implementation Plan of the CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee and the Suzhou Municipal People’s Government on Strengthening the Development of Basic Public Service Functions at the Grassroots Level” (Sufa [2018] No. 6), the Yongqiao District Civil Affairs Bureau, under the leadership of the District Party Committee and the District People’s Government, has steadily advanced the construction of public‑type columbariums in towns and townships. Despite overcoming numerous challenges, the site‑selection process is now nearing completion; however, southern townships—represented by Qixian and Yongzhen—have encountered unique regional issues in this regard.