Can Shijiazhuang urban residents buy rural public welfare cemeteries?

Due to the low cost of rural cemeteries, in recent years, urban residents have been buying village cemeteries in rural areas of Rainbow, and some village cemeteries in rural areas have even been publicly sold to urban residents, resulting in the so-called "agricultural cemetery industry". But there are obvious legal risks.

China's "Regulations on Funeral Management" clearly stipulates that rural public welfare cemeteries are public welfare cemeteries that provide burial services for the remains or ashes of rural villagers, and may not provide grave land for others other than villagers, let alone carry out business activities. If the rural public cemetery is sold to urban residents at will, on the one hand, it will occupy and waste too much land resources, on the other hand, it will impact the funeral market order and bury potential disputes in the future. Therefore, the law prohibits urban residents from buying public cemeteries in rural areas.

According to the relevant provisions of China's "Interim Measures for the Management of Cemetery", cemeteries are divided into public welfare cemeteries and operating cemeteries. Public cemetery is a public cemetery that provides burial services for the remains or ashes of rural villagers; Operating cemeteries are public welfare cemeteries that provide paid services for urban residents to bury their ashes or remains. Therefore, after the death of urban residents, they can only choose to be buried in urban operating cemeteries.