Zhonglou District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, focusing on the concerns of the masses, focusing on respect for life, land conservation and environmental protection, changing customs and benefiting the masses of the reform objectives, and actively explore and practice, increase the funding of funeral facilities, improve the ability to provide funeral services, and advocate civilized funeral style, promote the funeral reform in the region to go far and safeguard the masses of the “death of some peace”.
Setting the system, grasping the deployment, playing a good policy “combination punch”
First, tighten and compact responsibility. Set up by the district mayor as leader, deputy mayor in charge of vice mayor as deputy leader, 17 district departments and towns (streets) as members of the main responsible comrades of the Funeral Reform Leadership Group, clear work responsibilities, tighten and compact responsibility, improve the party committee-led, the government to promote the work of the funeral reform pattern of each department.
 
Secondly, the foundation of the reform is solidified. Funeral reform will be included in the “Zhonglou District National Economic and Social Development 14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 Visionary Goals Outline”, the overall deployment, one to promote. In respect of local funeral customs, the wishes of the masses and fully investigate the existing funeral facilities on the basis of the introduction of “public welfare columbarium management approach (for trial implementation)” and a series of policy documents, to promote funeral reform to lay a solid foundation.
 
Third, cohesive work. Establishment of departmental coordination and cooperation mechanism, coordination of public security, law enforcement, market supervision and other departments jointly involved in the funeral reform, build a horizontal combination of departments, vertical through the town (street) and village (community) of the three-tier working system, the formation of a strong synergy of funeral reform. Actively promote the “one thing behind” reform, through the integration of government resources, optimization of the handling process, online and offline integration, etc., to achieve a network of joint office through the funeral reform “last kilometer”.
Protecting the people's interests, benefiting the people's livelihoods, playing a good supply of “first move”
First, make up the short board of funeral facilities. Increase the public welfare of urban and rural columbarium facilities construction efforts, through repeated consultation, field surveys, scientific site selection, invested more than 40 million yuan, covering an area of nearly 7,000 square meters of the district-level funeral service station. Invested more than 60 million yuan to complete the upgrading of Beigang Mausoleum and Zou District Town Longtan Mausoleum (Phase I) new construction, the new ashes more than 30,000 cavities, and effectively meet the needs of the masses of funeral services.
 
Second, to enhance the capacity of funeral services. Introducing professional funeral service enterprises to participate in the operation and management of district funeral service stations, giving full play to the role of demonstration. Strengthen the standardization of funeral services, and strive to improve the level of funeral services. Innovative service mode, promote the “Internet + funeral services”, to provide the masses with online worship, booking worship and other forms of worship services.
 
Third, strengthening funeral management. Vigorously carry out intensive remedial actions in the field of funeral and burial, and effectively curb the behavior of scattered burials and mass graves. The establishment of reporting supervision telephone, the establishment of reward reporting mechanism, increase the illegal trading of cemeteries, transfer of forest land arable land to build graves and other violations of the investigation and handling. For the Zou District Town village-level public columbarium environment is poor, small space and other issues, to complete the 10 village-level columbarium, more than 1,400 urns relocation work, and relocation of more than 2,200 old head of graves.
Breaking old habits, establishing new rules, drawing a good civilization, “concentric circles”
First, change the mindset, change the concept. Through radio, television, newspapers, networks and other media and publicity vehicles into the village (community) touring publicity, the issuance of “change the custom civilized sacrificial initiative” and other ways to vigorously promote funeral reform policies, promote the thick and thin funeral and green civilized funeral concept.
Second, strong norms, heavy guidance. Strengthen the price management of funeral services, civil affairs, development and reform, market supervision and other multi-departmental coordination, give full play to the role of cross-departmental comprehensive supervision mechanism in the field of funeral, to further regulate the funeral service charges, resolutely investigate and deal with the funeral service institutions to establish a name charges, charges exceeding the standard, mandatory bundling of consumption, taking advantage of the opportunity to disguise the price increase and other acts, so that the masses are clear consumption. In the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival and other important festivals, the organization staff in public cemeteries (centralized burial sites) on duty, guiding the masses civilized low-carbon sacrificial offerings, to ensure that the activities are safe, civilized and orderly.
The third is to shape the township style, a new wind. Focus on the role of party members and cadres to take the lead in promoting the funeral culture and good family culture and promote the integration of family culture, so that the concept of changing customs and habits of the people. Simplify the funeral into the grass-roots mass self-government organizations in accordance with the list of self-governance matters, and village rules and regulations, residents Convention, set up village (community) red and white Council, guide the masses to abandon the stereotypes, advocate a new civilized style.