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By:Li Bosen
Publisher:Social Sciences Academic Press
ISBN:978-7-5097-4412-3
Publication Date:2013-03-28
Language:Chinese
Report on Funeral Development of China (2012-2013) is a collection of the series of achievements on the China's funeral industry development, issued by 101 Institute of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, composed by the experts, scholars and senior workers in the relative field. The book's total 21 articles are divided into five parts: general report; benefiting people subjects; science and technology subjects; humanities subjects and memorabilia.
The general report reviews the development of funeral industry in China from 2011 to 2012, and lists the main achievements of the funeral and interment field in the past two years: benefiting people policy was steps to ensure full coverage of the basic; science and technology funeral made a breakthrough which achieved a number of important results; green funeral progress has been the promotion of ecological burial; there are lots of bright spots in humanities funeral and carry forward the human spirit; the funeral services standards promote the continuous improvement of the quality of service; funeral reform demonstrations are fruitful which promote the use of advanced experience; personnel training has contributed to high-level talent emerging; advocacy guide has received the expected results.
Aiming at the widespread problems in funeral industry of backward administrative legislation, single management tools, big gaps between persons about benefiting funeral, low technology content, lack of humane care and ecological awareness, etc., lots of countermeasures and suggestions are proposed to promote the scientific development of funeral industry. For example, full implementation of the benefiting people funeral policies, promotion green ecological buried burial, announcement the new "Regulations on Funeral and Interment Control", heritage the advanced funeral culture, specification the funeral public services, increase the investment in the funeral services, accelerate the funeral pace of transformation of scientific and technological achievements, etc. The trends of the recent funeral industry development are also prospected in the general report.
The special reports closely center on the three themes of "benefiting people, science and technology, humanities". Some hot, difficult and key issues in funeral field are analyzed from different levels and perspectives based on the survey research. The benefiting people funeral policy implementation situation and development planning, local practical experience with specific measures are described; and the development strategies about cremation equipment, funeral environmental technology, embalming technology, pollution control management system and sacrifice through internet are also introduced. At the same time, the humanities funeral about the connotation and denotation, heritage and reconstruction, as well as the life-death view in contemporary society and post life archives are discussed. And some cultural ideas, human caring and the contract during one' s lifetime are also expounded.
The year of 2013 is the first year to implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress. Strengthening the social construction, cultural construction and ecological civilization will inevitably bring about new opportunities and challenges for the scientific development of the funeral industry.