What measures have party member cadres and state officials taken to take the lead in promoting funeral reform?
Funeral reform is a social reform that breaks the old customs of thousands of years and establishes a new fashion for the new generation. It concerns the vital interests of the people, the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and ecological civilization, and the party style, political style and folk customs. In order to give full play to the exemplary role of party member cadres and further promote the funeral reform, we hereby put forward the following opinions.
First, deeply understand the importance and urgency of promoting funeral reform.
Since the founding of New China, with the active advocacy of the older generation of leaders of the Party and the country and the vigorous promotion of party committees and governments at all levels, party member cadres have led the masses to actively promote cremation, reform burial, get rid of funeral habits, set up a new fashion of civilized and thrifty funeral, and achieved remarkable results in funeral reform. However, in recent years, some funeral customs have revived, and feudal superstitious activities have revived, which are highlighted in the following aspects: the cremation rate of remains in cremation areas has decreased, the problem of coffin reburying ashes has become prominent, and the phenomenon of indiscriminate burial of cultivated land in burial reform areas is serious, wasting a lot of natural resources and destroying the ecological environment; The wind of reburial prevails, and blind comparison and extravagance and waste breed and spread, which increases the burden on the masses; A few party member, cadres and even some leading cadres made use of funeral activities to collect money, were keen on geomantic superstition, and built luxurious tombs, which damaged the image of the party and government and ruined the social atmosphere. These phenomena need to be corrected urgently.
Party member cadres take the lead in promoting funeral reform, which is the due responsibility of changing customs and promoting the new socialist fashion; It is an important way to advocate civilized and thrifty funeral management and reduce the funeral burden of the masses; It is an inevitable requirement to strengthen the construction of party style and political style and establish a good image of the party and the government; It is an urgent requirement to solve the contradiction between population growth and resources and environment, benefit present and future generations, and promote sustainable economic and social development. Party committees and governments at all levels should fully understand the importance and urgency of party member cadres taking the lead in promoting funeral reform, further unify their thinking, improve policies and measures, and gradually form a good situation of funeral reform with party member cadres taking the lead, the masses participating and the whole society promoting.
Two, give full play to the leading role of party member cadres, and actively promote the reform of funeral.
(a) take the lead in civilized and frugal funeral, establish the fashion of the times. Party member, cadres should take the lead in civilized funeral service, simple funeral service. Funeral activities should be concentrated in funeral homes or appropriate places, consciously abide by public order, respect the legitimate rights and interests of others, and do not set up coffins in residential areas, urban streets or public places. Wear black gauze and white flowers, play funeral music, distribute life stories to mourn the dead, and consciously resist superstitious and vulgar activities. Unless otherwise stipulated by the state, party member cadres generally do not set up funeral organizations or hold memorial services after their death. When holding a farewell ceremony for the remains, we should strictly control the scale and strive to be frugal and simple. Family members, relatives and friends and their units should fully respect and support the wishes or demands of the deceased before his death, and keep the funeral simple. It is strictly forbidden for party member cadres, especially leading cadres, to waste money in funeral activities and take the opportunity to collect money.
(2) Take the lead in promoting cremation and ecological burial to protect the ecological environment. In a cremation area with dense population, less arable land and convenient transportation, party member cadres must be cremated after their death, and their ashes shall not be reburied in coffins, and graves and monuments shall not be built beyond the standard. In the reform area of burial that does not meet the conditions of cremation temporarily, the remains of party member cadres should be buried in cemeteries after their death, and they should not be buried indiscriminately. No matter in the cremation area or in the burial reform area, party member cadres should take the lead in promoting ecological burial, and actively participate in scattering ashes into the sea, sea burial or deep burial without leaving graves by means of land-saving ashes, tree burial, flower burial and lawn burial. Encourage party member cadres to donate organs or remains after death. After the death of minority cadres in party member, they should respect their national customs and be buried in accordance with relevant regulations.
(3) Take the lead in civilized and low-carbon sacrifice and inherit advanced culture. Party member cadres should take the lead in paying homage to civilized and low-carbon sacrifices, offering flowers, planting trees and afforesting, taking walks and reading classics. Remember the old friends, carry forward the excellent traditional culture such as being cautious and pursuing the distance, and do not burn paper money or set off firecrackers in forest areas, scenic spots and other no-fire areas. Actively participate in modern memorial activities such as community public sacrifices, collective sacrifices and online sacrifices, take the lead in offering sacrifices to martyrs, and lead the masses to gradually shift from paying attention to on-site physical sacrifices to paying attention to spiritual inheritance.
(four) take the lead in promoting the reform of funeral and interment, and promote the new style and righteousness. Party member cadres should actively publicize the funeral reform, strengthen the education and guidance to relatives and friends and the surrounding people, discourage bad funeral behavior in time, consciously resist stereotypes and feudal superstitious activities, and advocate a new civilized style. Leading cadres at all levels should strengthen the restraint on the funeral activities of immediate family members and staff around them, actively do ideological guidance, remind, stop and correct bad tendencies and incipient problems early, and never allow illegal funeral behaviors to be left unchecked or even sheltered.
Third, vigorously create a good environment conducive to funeral reform.
(a) to strengthen organizational leadership, improve the working mechanism. Party committees and governments at all levels should regard party member cadres as an important part of promoting socialist spiritual civilization and ecological civilization construction, safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, and strengthening the construction of party style and political style, put them on an important agenda, and establish and improve the working mechanism of party Committee leadership, government responsibility, departmental cooperation and social participation. Adhere to the guidance of cadres in party member, and constantly improve the people's consciousness of participating in funeral reform. Organizations should pay attention to the funeral care of cadres in party member and strengthen the education and management of cadres in party member. Propaganda, civilization office and other departments should do a good job in the publicity and guidance of funeral reform. Development and reform, public security, civil affairs, finance, human resources and social security, land and resources, industry and commerce, forestry and other departments should carry out their duties, closely cooperate, strengthen the supply of basic funeral services, improve policies and measures to benefit the people in funeral services, standardize the market order of funeral services, urge party member cadres to get rid of funeral habits and accelerate funeral reform. Trade unions, * * Communist Youth League, women's federations and other people's organizations and grass-roots party organizations, village (neighborhood) committees, red and white councils, elderly associations and other social organizations should give full play to their roles and widely mobilize the masses to actively participate in funeral reform.
(two) pay attention to overall planning, improve the level of protection. Party committees and governments at all levels should base themselves on reality, formulate and improve funeral development plans, clarify the objectives, tasks and methods of funeral reform, and incorporate them into local national economic and social development plans. According to the population, cultivated land, transportation and other conditions, the cremation area and burial reform area are scientifically divided, and the number, layout, scale and function of funeral infrastructure are determined as a whole. Increase investment, focus on improving basic funeral public service facilities such as funeral parlours, columbariums and public welfare cemeteries, and gradually form a basic funeral public service network with reasonable layout, complete facilities, complete functions and convenient services, so as to create favorable conditions for promoting funeral reform.
(3) Improve laws and regulations and strengthen supervision and management. Accelerate the revision of the Regulations on Funeral Management, and improve the basic funeral service guarantee, funeral service market supervision, funeral activity management and law enforcement systems. Further improve and standardize the administrative law enforcement system of indiscriminate burial. Actively establish an incentive and guidance mechanism for funeral reform and implement incentive policies such as ecological funeral awards. Strengthen supervision and inspection, strengthen accountability, and severely punish party member cadres, especially leading cadres, who violate discipline and law in funeral activities.
(4) Strengthen publicity and guide public opinion. Make full use of various media and means of communication, in-depth publicity of funeral laws and policies, popularize scientific knowledge, and advocate a new funeral fashion of civilization, thrift, ecological protection and changing customs. Vigorously publicize the advanced model of party member cadres taking the lead in promoting funeral reform, and spread positive energy. Give full play to the role of media supervision, expose negative cases, and strive to create a good atmosphere conducive to funeral reform.
All relevant departments in various regions shall formulate specific implementation measures in accordance with the spirit of this opinion and the actual situation.