After a person dies in Shanghai, how much is the funeral expenses and the money to buy a cemetery?
It has become an economic phenomenon. It's hard to imagine that so many people are getting rich. Well, no wonder some people say they can't afford to die.
Yes,
The profit of funeral industry far exceeds that of real estate.
Since 2003, the funeral industry has been included in the list of "Top Ten Profitable Industries in China", and the voice against "funeral profiteering" is getting louder and louder. Private capital has entered the funeral industry, and the monopoly is being broken. Local governments are also actively promoting the sunshine funeral of low-income groups. However, the funeral expenses are rising instead of falling, and the profiteering in the funeral industry is getting worse.
The reporter recently found in the investigation that monopoly is not the root cause of funeral profiteering, and breaking monopoly alone cannot curb funeral profiteering. Only by implementing price control and strict supervision can we cut off the root of funeral profiteering.
The same profiteering inside and outside the system.
Gao, director of the Department of Social Welfare and Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said that at present, funeral services, funeral supplies, tomb construction and sales have been liberalized, allowing private enterprises to enter. The national situation is that state-owned enterprises and private enterprises each account for about 50%. Huge profits in the funeral industry exist in both state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, and the civil affairs department also thinks it is huge profits, but this huge profit is not caused by the monopoly of the civil affairs department.
This explains why the funeral expenses remain high after breaking the original administrative monopoly of the funeral industry: because breaking the monopoly has nothing to do with the "profiteering" outside the system, such as the profiteering of illegal "black funeral"; For example, the huge profits of individual products such as urns and graves.
Jiang Xiaogang, deputy director of the Beijing Funeral Management Office, said that there are four main aspects of funeral fees, and profiteering mainly comes from the latter three aspects:
-Traditional cremation services. Including the transport of remains, cremation and ashes storage. The charging standard shall be approved by the price department. A corpse in funeral home cremation is charged by 380 yuan, and the ashes are stored in 50 yuan for one year, and the transportation cost is 5 yuan/km. In fact, the traditional service of the third child is to break even and lose money. Every time a corpse is cremated, the funeral home has to pay one or two hundred yuan, so there is no profiteering in this piece.
Funeral service. Including collection, cold storage, anti-corrosion, plastic surgery, disinfection, dressing, renting a farewell ceremony hall for the remains, etc. The market price is determined and approved by the price department.
Funeral supplies. Including urn, body bag, ceremony hall layout, wreath, shroud, incense, music, flowers and so on. , regulated by the market and approved by the price department.
-Graves and ashes. This is the largest profit margin of all projects, far exceeding the high-quality real estate.
The profit is 15 times the cost.
According to the data of China Civil Affairs Statistical Yearbook in 2004, the annual income of funeral industry in China is 7.5 billion, and the annual profit rate is 14.6%. On the whole, there is no profiteering in the funeral industry. However, from the microscopic point of view, the profiteering phenomenon of individual products, individual places and individual enterprises continues.
"The funeral industry is divided into burial and burial, and the profit difference is huge. The profits of individual projects and products are as high as 2000%. " Qiao Kuanyuan, a professor at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, told reporters, "The most prominent ones are tombs, funeral services and urns."
Jiang Xiaogang said that there are currently 33 legal cemeteries and 26 public welfare cemeteries approved by the civil affairs departments in Beijing. The average price of tombs has exceeded 10,000 yuan, the cheapest is 2,000 yuan and 3,000 yuan, and there are hundreds of thousands and millions of luxury cemeteries. The price of ashes is 5000 yuan to 10000 yuan.
An industry insider told reporters that the profit of cemetery development far exceeds the real estate industry. In addition to poor procedures, the operating costs of cemeteries and cemeteries are not high, but the profits are quite amazing. At present, the more popular practice is to cooperate with the local village Committee, town or civil affairs bureau, and the other party will go out and the boss will invest; Even if the land is requisitioned, the land price is not high because it is generally in remote mountainous areas. Generally, the cost of land acquisition per mu is only tens of thousands of yuan, plus 50 thousand yuan for leveling and greening, and the maximum for road and granite decoration is 50 thousand yuan. Converted, the cost per mu of land is only 200,000 yuan.
However, an acre of land can generally build 350 tombs. Even if the sales price of each tomb is 1 10,000 yuan, the sales of cemeteries built on an acre of land can reach 3.5 million yuan. According to the regulations of the Ministry of Finance of People's Republic of China (PRC) and State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China, the cemetery is exempt from business tax, so the profit of the developer is nearly 400% except the money for a single headstone (calculated by 20%) and the land cost.
This is only the most conservative estimate. The higher the tomb price, the greater the profiteering space. Generally speaking, the profit is about 10 to 15 times of the cost. The luxury cemetery with a price of more than 6,543,800 yuan covers an area similar to that of ordinary tombs, but the "geomantic omen" and stone materials are better, and developers earn more from it.
In terms of funeral services, mortuaries in dozens of hospitals in Beijing have fully competed with funeral parlours. There are all kinds of services. On the public charge card of the mortuary of the First Hospital of Peking University, there are more than 10 funeral service fees, including 10 yuan for each visit to the body, RMB 65,438 for cleaning 300 yuan 100, RMB 65,438 for toenail clipping, and RMB 150 yuan for dressing. Generally, the service fee is 20 yuan for each visit and bid farewell to 600 yuan for each visit.
In terms of funeral supplies, the reporter used the general