Wang, who lives in Mayu village in Beijing's Changping district, recently filed a lawsuit against the local government and the village committee,
demanding an apology and compensation for the infringement of her reputation and
misuse of her name.
Wang said that the staff in charge of the cemetery told her that the purpose behind "inscribing local villagers' names on the tombstone was to avoid official
inspection," the Beijing Times reported.
According to the report, a non-profit cemetery has been planned on the land where "Wang's tomb" lies but has not been approved. However http://www.airmax97pascher.fr/ , tombs at the cemetery have been sold secretly, which is against China's
regulations on funeral management that a non-profit cemetery cannot be used by
people other than local villagers.
Therefore, staff members at the cemetery found a way to avoid inspection by local civil affairs department: write villages' names on the tombstone and wipe
them and carve new names after the tombs were sold.
"We cannot afford to die" has become a bizarre refrain among the Chinese public during every Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day. Especially in
metropolises like Beijing, the cost of a cemetery burial, ranging from
40 air max 97 pas cher ,000 yuan ($6,500) to hundreds of thousands of yuan per square meter, is far from
affordable, according to the recently released annual Green Book of Funeral:
Report on Funeral Development in China, by an institute affiliated with the
Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Meanwhile, media reports about more cases of non-profit village cemeteries being utilized for commercial purposes have surfaced recently nike air max 97 pas cher , prompting experts to call for reform of the funeral system.
Empty tombs
According to Wang, her grandparents' and husband's names were also written on at least three tombstones and staff members explained it to be "duplication of
the name."
"It was possible that staff members at the cemetery did not notice that I am still alive and wrote my name on the tombstone to establish an empty graveyard,"
said Wang, adding that these empty tombs could serve as advertisement to attract
more people to purchase a tomb at the cemetery.
The Beijing Times reported that over 200 of 600 tombs at the cemetery are fake and two tombstones even have the names of "Yao Ming" [Chinese basketball
player and NBA superstar], and "Lin Zhixuan and Deng Liwen" [famous Taiwan
singer and his wife]. People who established the tombstones failed to be found,
according to the report.
A warning board hangs at the cemetery's gate which reads Nike Vapormax Flyknit Homme Soldes Chaussures Bordeaux , "Illegal non-profit cemetery." It was placed by Changping district authorities.
However, a staff member at the cemetery told the newspaper that the tombs have been sold to outside people secretly at the price ranging from 30,000 to
50,000 yuan per square meter.
"A non-profit cemetery could easily get approval from local civil affairs department. Procurement of the land will receive government subsidy, but it is
banned from being sold to people outside the village," said the staff
member Chaussures Homme Nike Vapormax Flyknit Noir Blanche Pas Cher , adding that the price in Mayu village is half that of a nearby cemetery.
Official indifference
The Global Times contacted a person surnamed Zhang at a Beijing-based company which sells graveyards at the Ming Tombs region.
According to the company's website, 33 legal commercial tombs are being sold in Beijing, in which 11 are located in Haidian district while five in Changping
district. The lowest price for a tomb in Haidian is 100,000 yuan per square
meter while those in Changping district cost around 50,000 yuan on average.
"If you think it is too expensive, we could offer you tomb in the village that only costs several thousand yuan Homme Nike Air Max 270 Elemental Or Noir Pas Cher ," said Zhang, suggesting people buy it as soon as possible since the price has been rising by
around 20 percent annually.
Zhang admitted that selling tombs in non-profit cemeteries is illegal. However, when being asked if there are any risks, he assured that "I have been
selling graveyards for seven years and have never run into any trouble."
"Civil affairs authorities usually turn a blind eye as we have already established large numbers of graveyards in village cemeteries. What's done is
done, and they could not remove the graveyards," he said.
Zhang added that civil affairs authorities are unable to keep a vigil on the cemeteries all the time. Even if they uncovered the illegal business Homme Nike Air Max 270 Be True Multicolor Pas Cher , they would usually solve the problem by imposing fines.
Call for reform
Commercial cemetery is a scarce and non-renewable resource and is too expensive for ordinary people; therefore, most people tend to purchase cheap
tombs in villages. Driven by huge profits, some people began to sell tombs in
non-profit cemeteries to citizens, although they knew it was illegal, Yang
Genlai, a funeral management expert with the Beijing Social Administration
Vocational College Femme Nike Air Max 270 Triple Blanche Pas Cher , told the Global Times.
According to a report in the Legal Weekly, insiders said that 15,000 tombs could be established in a 20-hectare non-profit cemetery and one could earn
around 200 million yuan by selling each at 15,000 yuan.
Insiders added that the problem is hard to solve as the industrial and commercial administration, civil affairs department and local government all
part of the profit chain.
Yang said that slack supervision and weak law enforcement has led to a rise in the illegal trade, while insufficient punishment emboldens people to reenter
the business after being caught for the first time. He suggested that the
government advocate new ways of burial such as sea-burial or cremation.
It is estimated that China's funeral market will surge in the nex
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