Selected "Hungry Ghost Festival" Civilized Sacrifice and Sweeping Activities Program

(The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month), commonly known as the "Hungry Ghost Festival", also known as the "Ghost Festival", is a traditional festival for our people to pay homage to the deceased and remember their ancestors. In order to effectively promote the publicity, guidance and safety of mass memorial and sweeping activities during the "Hungry Ghost Festival", this plan is specially formulated.

1. Guiding ideology

Guided by the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and taking the opportunity of creating a national civilized city in Nanchang, we will advocate a new trend in funeral reform and strive to realize civilized sacrifices and sweeps. Low-carbon memorial services give full play to the positive role of traditional Chinese festivals in inheriting traditional virtues, promoting Chinese culture, deepening funeral reform, and building a harmonious society.

2. Activity theme

Environmental protection and civilized sacrifice

3. Work content

(1 ) Strengthen preventive measures to ensure the safety of sacrifices and sweeps

Establish awareness of safety precautions, especially fire safety. In view of the relatively concentrated time for mass sacrifices and sweeps during the "Hungry Ghost Festival", formulate work plans in advance and carefully search for safety hazards , ensure that responsibilities are clear and personnel are in place. It is necessary to establish an emergency duty system, do a good job in fire prevention and traffic order maintenance in and around sacrificial sweeping facilities, and ensure that all safety measures are implemented.

(2) Actively publicize and guide, and establish a new trend of civilized sacrifices and sweeps

Carry out publicity activities with the theme of "Protecting the Environment and Civilized Sacrifice and Sweeping" to promote the new trend of civilized sacrifices and sweeps. In publicity and guidance work, it is necessary to vigorously publicize relevant laws and policies such as funeral management and fire safety, advocate new trends and trends in civilized memorial services; promote ecological, environmentally friendly, civilized and frugal burial methods; guide the masses to consciously resist superstition, vulgarity, Ignorant and backward customs of sacrifice and sweeping.

4. Work Requirements

(1) Raise awareness and strengthen leadership. Civilized sacrifices and sweeps are a concrete manifestation of improving the appearance of the urban environment, and are also concrete measures to establish good social customs and cultivate citizens' civilized qualities. All streets, towns and parks must establish awareness of the overall situation, service awareness, responsibility awareness and safety awareness, ensure timely and appropriate disposal, effective and effective measures, and ensure that the sacrifices and sweeps during the "Hungry Ghost Festival" are carried out in a civilized, safe and orderly manner.

(2) It must be integrated with the work of civilization creation. In accordance with the requirements for the evaluation and inspection of the National Urban Civilization Index, combined with the actual work, and taking the opportunity of civilization creation to carry out extensive and in-depth activities. It is necessary to give full play to the enthusiasm and initiative of all units and the general public, strengthen educational guidance, and do a good job in quality education for citizens.

(3) Strengthen publicity and model guidance. It is necessary to use the news media to publicize, print and distribute promotional materials, hang banners, post slogans, etc. to increase publicity efforts and guide the masses to establish new concepts of funeral and burial sacrifices. It is necessary to widely publicize advanced experiences and typical cases from multiple perspectives such as purifying the city environment and building ecological civilization, and actively advocate low-carbon, ecological, and civilized sweeping activities. It is necessary to conscientiously implement the commitment system of party members and cadres to conduct funerals in a civilized manner, standardize the behavior of party members and cadres in funeral activities, give full play to their role as role models, take the lead in getting rid of bad funeral customs, and take the lead in establishing new civilized trends.

(4) Innovate methods and enrich content. All streets, towns, gardens, and village (neighborhood) committees must follow the principle of "territorial management" and organize relevant personnel in the streets and communities to publicize the concept of civilized sacrifice and advocate A new trend of civilized sacrifices and resistance to traditional bad habits of sacrifices. We should closely focus on the publicity theme of "protecting the environment and civilized worship" and advocate the use of flowers instead of paper money, online sacrifices, "Thanksgiving" ancestor worship, family "memorial meetings", planting green trees, folding paper cranes, and releasing paper cranes into the river. Lights and other civilized and environmentally friendly ways of sweeping. For those who still "fold paper and burn" as a way to commemorate their deceased friends, each street, town, and park, based on the actual situation and the community as a unit, selects 1-2 open spaces that will not affect traffic and city appearance, and sets up centralized burning We will implement fixed-time, fixed-person and fixed-point management, and configure firecracker discharge barrels to provide convenience and guarantee for the general public to burn and sweep at standardized locations.

Social workers should use their professional knowledge and skills in social work to proactively introduce some healthy and civilized ways of mourning and sweeping, and actively guide the masses to develop the mourning and sweeping activities from focusing on physical memorials to paying attention to psychological needs

(5) To strengthen Inter-departmental coordination and linkage. The member units of the district's leading group for combating bad funeral customs should strengthen communication and coordination, carefully analyze the characteristics of mass memorial services and sweeps during the "Hungry Ghost Festival", and combine with reality, conscientiously study and implement the management mechanism for mass memorial sweeps, from the perspective of organizational leadership, work tasks, and responsibilities In terms of division of labor, law enforcement management, etc., formulate feasible plans, implement specific measures, scientifically improve various safety and security measures, and ensure that the management of civilized, safe, and orderly mass memorial and sweeping activities is implemented and achieved effective results. All units should strengthen patrol inspections and strictly prohibit the burning of paper money on main and secondary arterial roads, parks and squares, public green spaces, river banks and embankments in urban areas. If they are found to be burning paper money and other sacrificial behaviors, they should be advised and stopped in a timely manner, and guide them to choose more civilized memorial services. Way.

Relevant departments in all streets, towns, parks and districts will summarize the work of the "Hungry Ghost Festival" commemoration and sweeping activities before August 15, and will report the implementation plan, activities, publicity and reporting, The summary of the activities should be submitted to the District Civilization Office and the Affairs Section of the Civil Affairs Bureau in two copies each in paper and electronic form.