Is there a public cemetery in Shijiazhuang? What is a public cemetery?

Public cemetery: public cemetery is a social welfare facility that provides citizens with ashes burial (placement) for non-profit purposes. The public cemetery implements the system of preparation and acceptance. Public cemetery shall not be operated or sold externally.

Operating cemetery: The operating cemetery must be approved by the local government, and submitted to the Provincial Civil Affairs Department for approval after going through the relevant formalities in the departments of land management, urban and rural construction planning and management, development and reform commission, etc. The operating cemetery has a business license and relevant land and approval certificate. The main business of operating cemeteries is generally funeral institutions, mostly funeral management offices of civil affairs departments at all levels, and social capital can also be introduced to serve the residents of this province, other provinces and foreign residents with the approval of the Provincial Civil Affairs Department. The price is set by the general cemetery and approved by the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Price Bureau.

Regulations on funeral management

Preparation: To prepare a rural public cemetery, the opinions of the county-level land and resources, planning and forestry departments should be obtained first, and then reported to the county-level civil affairs department for examination and approval, and reported to the municipal civil affairs department for the record. After the completion of the cemetery, an application for acceptance shall be submitted to the county-level civil affairs department. Without the approval of the civil affairs department at the county level, no unit or individual may build a rural public cemetery.

Management: The service period of graves in rural public welfare cemeteries is 20 years. If it is necessary to continue to use it after the expiration of the validity period, it must go through the renewal procedures. Grave owners are not allowed to transfer or buy or sell graves without authorization.

The fees for graves in rural public welfare cemeteries are composed of grave material fees and grave management fees, and cemetery construction fees and land use fees are not charged. The specific charging standard shall be formulated by the county-level price department.

Rural public cemetery shall not accept the burial of the remains. It is forbidden to build luxurious tombs, clan tombs, kill game, and engage in feudal superstitious activities.

The cemetery shall set up a management organization or employ full-time management personnel to be responsible for the management and maintenance of the cemetery area; It is necessary to strengthen infrastructure construction and improve service functions to meet the funeral needs of the masses.

The cemetery shall establish and improve the system of land registration and financial management for graves, and the financial revenue and expenditure shall be included in the content of government affairs disclosure and announced to the public on a regular basis.

The land occupied by rural public cemetery belongs to the collective, and no unit or individual may occupy it.

Significance: Promoting the construction of public cemetery can effectively meet the needs of the masses to "bury themselves in peace" and realize the equalization of basic funeral services. Due to the welfare nature of public cemetery, its price is much cheaper than that of for-profit cemetery, which can effectively alleviate the problem of high funeral expenses faced by ordinary people at present. In addition, increasing the construction of public welfare cemeteries can form price pressure on profitable cemeteries and play an important role in stabilizing cemetery prices.