China News Service, March 21. According to the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, on March 21, the Ministry of Civil Affairs held a video and teleconference on the 2022 Qingming Festival Sacrifice and Sweeping Work to deploy the safety management and service guarantee of the Qingming Festival Sweeping.

The meeting pointed out that the current epidemic situation in some parts of the country is still severe and complex, and the risk of social spread and spillover is relatively high. Strictly do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, and it is a big test to do a good job in Qingming Festival this year. Civil affairs at all levels Departments and funeral service agencies must overcome paralysis, war weariness, luck, and relaxation to ensure the safety of epidemic prevention and control and the stability of the overall social situation.

  The meeting requested that ensuring the people's health, safety, and civilization are the key tasks of this year's Qingming Festival.

Civil affairs departments and funeral service agencies at all levels must resolutely implement the requirements for differentiated and precise prevention and control by zoning and classification, and under the unified leadership of the local epidemic prevention and control command organization, promptly formulate policies and measures for sacrifice and sweeping services that are compatible with local epidemic prevention and control. Be careful, be realistic, and be precise. It is strictly forbidden to cut across the board and simplify. It is necessary to avoid clustered epidemics and large-scale rebounds, and to strive to meet the needs of the masses.

It is necessary to do a good job in various safety production work, organize and carry out the investigation of hidden safety hazards in funeral service institutions, rectify existing problems in a timely manner, and plug service management loopholes; it is necessary to consolidate the responsibilities of funeral service institutions and counties and villages, and strengthen the supervision of funeral service facilities and more scattered services. Fire management in rural public welfare cemeteries and historical burial sites to strictly prevent the occurrence of safety accidents such as fires caused by fires used in ritual sweeping activities.

All localities should make full use of the opportunity of the Qingming Festival to gather sacrifices, inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture, implement the concept of green ecological development, innovate service carriers for sacrifices, and vigorously promote online sacrifices, flower sacrifices, and family sacrifices. Remembrance and other civilized low-carbon sacrificial sweeping methods; guide the masses to consciously combine the Qingming Festival sacrificial sweeping with the promotion of good family education and family traditions, and the implementation of festival ecological burial, actively promote the reform of funeral customs, and help rural revitalization and social civilization progress.

For platforms, public accounts, and websites that provide online sacrifice and sweeping services, all localities should strengthen evaluation and supervision, and those who violate the law should be promptly investigated and punished with the network information department.

  The meeting emphasized that civil affairs departments and funeral service agencies at all levels should strengthen the organizational management and service guarantee of the Qingming Festival sacrifice sweeping work.

As the industry competent department of funeral affairs, the main responsible comrades must conscientiously perform their duties and take the lead in commanding, so as to be responsible for guarding the soil, taking responsibility for the soil, and being responsible for the soil; it is necessary to give full play to the role of the coordinating mechanism for funeral and interment work, and actively strive for the party committee and the government. Support; it is necessary to strengthen the coordination of departments, consolidate the main responsibility of funeral service agencies, and consolidate the four responsibilities of the locality, department, unit, and individual; it is necessary to strictly implement the on-duty and information reporting system, and in case of major situations and problems, it is necessary to promptly report to the local party committee , reports from the government and higher-level civil affairs departments; it is necessary to further innovate and refine measures to facilitate the people and benefit the people, appropriately increase service outlets, convenience windows, special lines for sacrifice and sweeping, retain traditional models such as telephone reservations and offline services, and expand and improve online reservations, proxy services, etc. Service functions such as guest sacrificial sweeping, to ensure the needs of special groups for sacrificial sweeping; to seize the favorable opportunity during the Qingming Festival when the society pays close attention to the topic of funeral and funeral, through press conferences, institutional open days, media symposiums, public welfare text messages, etc. Communication and cooperation with the media, timely release of policies and measures such as local epidemic prevention and control, sacrificial cleaning services, etc., proactively do a good job in publicity and guidance, and respond to social concerns in a timely manner.