Free basic funeral services nationwide this year to promote the pilot project in Ji'nan.
according to CCTV reports, in order to reduce the burial cost burden of mass funeral and interment, in 2009, some areas of our country were gradually exempt from basic funeral services. According to a number of regional surveys in the past year, the average funeral expenses of the whole country, including transportation, storage and cremation, are about 1000 yuan. The Ministry of Civil Affairs said that from this year, the basic funeral expenses policy will be extended to the whole country and free basic funeral services will be provided to all residents.
the head of Social Affairs Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that, in view of the relatively large burial burial expenditure under the low income group, the local government will actively promote the local funeral and interment policy to reduce the cost of basic funeral services for the difficult groups. We will continue to increase investment in funeral and interment facilities and equipment, and continue to improve the network of undertakings, especially in underdeveloped areas, and further improve the environment and conditions for the funeral. At the same time, in order to clean up the service price of funeral and interment, we should focus on the special cleaning and inspection of the selective funeral service price, and guide the masses to consume rationally and measure in the funeral activities, and voluntarily resist the wind of big exercises.
at present, there are 9 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government), 37 prefectural cities and 120 counties (cities and districts) carrying out different contents of Huimin funeral and interment policy, of which all residents in the area are exempt from or subsidized basic funeral and burial expenses in Beijing, Qingdao, Laoshan and other 31, exempt or supplement the rural residents. The area of basic funeral and interment costs is 16 in Heze Peony District. There are 32 areas in Ji'nan, Chengwu county and Linyi County for the urban and rural difficult people to be exempt from or subsidize the basic funeral and burial expenses. There are 10 areas in Linyi county and Rizhao City Arashiyama district for the construction of public public cemeteries in urban and rural areas or the subsidies for the ecological burial law.