Notice on Stopping Sacrificial Sweeping Activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Liaoning Province in 2020

It's getting warmer and warmer, and Tomb-Sweeping Day is here again. On this festival, family members always get together to visit the graves of their loved ones. However, the epidemic affected the mass activities, and indeed this year's Tomb-Sweeping Day activities were cancelled.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming, and in Liaoning Province, where all kinds of public sacrifice activities are suspended, the mass sacrifice and sweeping activities are about to enter the peak period. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic caused by large-scale crowd gathering, it is necessary to do a good job in the epidemic prevention and control and safety management of funeral services in the province.

On March 13, the Civil Affairs Department of Liaoning Province issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Prevention and Control of Epidemic Situation and the Safety Management of Funeral Services in Tomb-Sweeping Day, requiring cities to suspend funeral services such as funeral homes, operating cemeteries and public welfare cemeteries, and suspend all kinds of public sacrifice activities during Tomb-Sweeping Day.

As mentioned in the notice, according to the "Notice of the State Council on Further Improving the Joint Prevention and Control of novel coronavirus Infection by Civil Affairs Service Organizations" (

Tomb-Sweeping Day [2020] No.6), "Funeral service institutions can suspend mass gathering activities such as wake and farewell memorial service in addition to ensuring basic funeral services such as body pick-up, cremation and temporary storage of ashes", and suspend sweeping services and various public sacrifice activities of funeral service institutions such as funeral parlours, operating cemeteries and public welfare cemeteries in light of the actual situation in Liaoning Province.

At the same time, funeral service agencies should do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, conduct extensive publicity through media announcements, community propaganda and other forms, and guide the masses to pay homage to their loved ones in the form of family memories. It is necessary to use the funeral service website to advocate civilized sacrifice and set up an online sacrifice column to facilitate online sacrifice for the masses. Funeral service institutions should do a good job in offering sacrifices and sweeping.

In addition, the circular also requires that, in order to strengthen safety management, all localities should co-ordinate the prevention and control of epidemic situation and safety management of funeral service institutions during Tomb-Sweeping Day, improve facilities, reduce the gathering of personnel and prevent all kinds of safety accidents. We should conscientiously implement Article 30 of the Measures for the Prevention and Control of Epidemic Situation in Civil Affairs Service Institutions, earnestly do a good job in the prevention and control of epidemic situation in funeral service institutions, implement various prevention and control measures such as registration, temperature measurement and disinfection of foreign personnel, and equip them with necessary protective equipment to ensure the safety of personnel. It is necessary to further strengthen the safety management of funeral service institutions, carry out investigation and rectification of potential safety hazards, focus on spring fire prevention, strengthen duty and information reporting, and strictly implement the daily newspaper system.

From now on, funeral services such as funeral homes, cemeteries and columbariums will be suspended, and the recovery time will be announced separately. Take measures such as making an appointment to register and limiting the number of people to handle tomb selection and ashes burial. Staff should wear masks, gloves and other protective equipment, and strengthen the temperature measurement, disinfection and registration of foreign personnel. Foreigners entering the cemetery must abide by the cemetery management regulations, wear masks, measure their body temperature and register, and the number of people entering the cemetery per household shall not exceed 3.

All regions should innovate services and guide residents to take various ways to remember their old friends. First, offering sacrifices at home, advocating residents to worship their relatives at home in the form of folding paper cranes, buying flowers and establishing WeChat groups of relatives and friends, and pinning their thoughts and memories; The second is to carry out sacrificial services. Funeral units should make public service calls, help buy sacrificial supplies according to the needs of the masses, and show the sacrificial scene through WeChat, video and pictures. Help the masses to remember remotely; The third is online sacrifice, which can be carried out through Shenyang funeral service network, self-built WeChat official account and online platform of funeral units.

It is forbidden for the masses to burn paper, incense and set off fireworks and firecrackers in the cemetery, increase the inspection of the cemetery, and resolutely put an end to fire accidents. It is necessary to strengthen the management and control of scattered graves and burial sites, give full play to the role of street (township) and village (neighborhood) committees, set up publicity boards for prohibiting the burning of civilized sacrifices, arrange special personnel to prevent and control them, and resolutely put an end to the use of fire in field sacrifices such as burning paper, burning incense and setting off fireworks and firecrackers to prevent all kinds of safety accidents.

District, county (city) Civil Affairs Bureau, civil affairs service and administrative law enforcement center should further intensify law enforcement investigation and punishment, focus on checking the surrounding environment of sacrificial sites, discourage the masses from offering sacrifices outside the park, and coordinate with local public security departments in a timely manner to deal with uncooperative behaviors. At the same time, in conjunction with the market supervision department, investigate and deal with illegal activities such as manufacturing and selling feudal superstitious supplies, arbitrary charges in the market, price fraud, etc.

On March 13, Shenyang Civil Affairs Bureau issued the Notice on Implementing the Requirements for Suspension of Sacrificial Sweeping Services during Epidemic Prevention and Control to Further Strengthen Safety Management. From now on, funeral services such as funeral homes, cemeteries and columbariums will suspend the sweeping service.

Notice on the implementation of the suspension of sacrifice and sweeping services during the epidemic prevention and control period to further strengthen safety management

County (city) Civil Affairs Bureau, Civil Affairs Service and Administrative Law Enforcement Center:

In order to effectively do a good job in epidemic prevention and control of funeral service institutions and prevent the epidemic from rebounding and spreading, according to the requirements of the Notice of the Provincial Civil Affairs Department on Doing a Good Job in Epidemic Prevention and Control and Safety Management of funeral service institutions during the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day (Chuan [2020] No.44), combined with the actual situation of epidemic prevention and control in our city, we hereby notify you as follows:

First, attach great importance to it and strictly implement it.

At present, the situation of epidemic prevention and control in China is getting better and better, but there is still the risk of rebound and spread, and the prevention and control work cannot be relaxed at all. Tomb-Sweeping Day's peak of sacrificial sweeping is coming, and all regions should raise awareness and implement the Notice of the Provincial Civil Affairs Department on Doing a Good Job in the Epidemic Prevention and Safety Management of Funeral Services during Tomb-Sweeping Day (Chuan [2020] No.44). From now on, funeral services such as funeral homes, cemeteries and columbariums will be suspended until further notice. For tomb selection and ashes burial, measures such as making an appointment to register and limiting the number of people are taken. Staff should wear masks, gloves and other protective equipment, and strengthen the temperature measurement, disinfection and registration of foreign personnel. Foreigners entering the cemetery must abide by the cemetery management regulations, wear masks, measure their body temperature and register, and the number of people entering the cemetery per household shall not exceed 3.

Second, strengthen publicity and positive guidance.

With the help of radio, television, newspapers, WeChat, Weibo and other media, widely publicize the provisions on suspending the sacrifice and sweeping service to residents, and guide the masses to support and understand. Funeral units shall set up signs, suspend the service of offering sacrifices and sweeping, and prohibit crowd gathering activities. Advocate the masses to make civilized sacrifices, abandon feudal superstitions and bid farewell to the bad habits of sacrifice.

Third, innovative service and civilized sacrifice.

All regions should innovate services and guide residents to take various ways to remember their old friends. First, offering sacrifices at home, advocating residents to worship their relatives at home in the form of folding paper cranes, buying flowers and establishing WeChat groups of relatives and friends, and pinning their thoughts and memories; The second is to carry out the sweeping service.

Funeral units should make public service calls, help to buy sacrificial supplies according to the needs of the masses, and display sacrificial sweeping scenes through WeChat, videos and pictures to help the masses remember them remotely; The third is online sacrifice, which can be carried out through Shenyang funeral service network, self-built WeChat official account and online platform of funeral units.

Fourth, strict management to ensure safety.

All regions should conscientiously implement the Notice of novel coronavirus Provincial Pneumonia Epidemic Command on Printing and Distributing 30 Measures for Epidemic Prevention and Control of Civil Affairs Service Institutions (Liao Xin Fu [2020] No.23) and the Notice of Shenyang Forest Fire Prevention and Control Command on Printing and Distributing the Work Plan for Forest Fire Prevention and Control during the Spring Epidemic Prevention in 2020: the notice requires strengthening territorial management, compacting responsibilities, stepping up inspections, making changes when problems are found, and prohibiting people from burning paper and burning in cemeteries. It is necessary to strengthen the management and control of scattered graves and burial sites, give full play to the role of street (township) and village (neighborhood) committees, set up publicity boards for prohibiting the burning of civilized sacrifices, arrange special personnel to prevent and control them, and resolutely put an end to the use of fire in field sacrifices such as burning paper, burning incense and setting off fireworks and firecrackers to prevent all kinds of safety accidents.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) strengthens law enforcement and close coordination.

District, county (city) Civil Affairs Bureau, civil affairs service and administrative law enforcement center should further intensify law enforcement investigation and punishment, focus on checking the surrounding environment of sacrificial sites, discourage the masses from offering sacrifices outside the park, and coordinate with local public security departments in a timely manner to deal with uncooperative behaviors. At the same time, in conjunction with the market supervision department, investigate and deal with illegal activities such as manufacturing and selling feudal superstitious supplies, arbitrary charges in the market, price fraud, etc.

Shenyang Civil Affairs Bureau

March 2020 13