Suzhou restricts sale of tombs to local residents
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WHILE people gather to sweep tombs on tomb-sweeping day today, many others have found getting one difficult.
Suzhou in east China’s Jiangsu Province has banned the sale of tombs to people without a local hukou (household registration), except for “particular reasons.”
“Those who are not Suzhou citizens should get approval from the civil affairs authorities before they can buy a tomb here,” said Zhang Jihong, vice head of the city’s civil affairs bureau.
Many of the city’s tombs do not belong to Suzhou citizens, and the bureau estimates that more than 6 million people will be in the city to sweep tombs for their deceased relatives.
Many will be from Shanghai where the price of a tomb is almost double that in Suzhou. In addition, more than 30 years ago there were no public cemeteries in Shanghai, so many chose Suzhou instead.
Suzhou had a similar policy in 2004, but it was not well implemented. Now that there are so few spaces left, the policy has been revived.
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