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With Qingming approaching, the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Social Work Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Capital Civilization Office recently jointly issued the Qingming Festival "Rational Remembrance and Civilized Sacrifice" proposal, advocating green civilization festival sweeping, safe and orderly festival sweeping, carrying forward the new wind of the times, and rationally expressing condolences. This year, Beijing's Qingming Festival Cleaning Service Centralized Reception Day began on March 3 and ended on April 18, for a total of 4 days.

Recently, Beijing's civil affairs and other departments, as well as cemeteries, columbariums and other memorial cleaning sites, have actively innovated service methods, implemented a series of measures to facilitate the people and benefit the people, promoted the orderly development of ritual cleaning services, standardized and guided citizens to civilize ritual cleaning, and constantly created a strong atmosphere of changing customs and customs.

The official website of the Capital Window and the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau set up a special topic of "Beijing 2023 Qingming Festival Online Festival Cleaning Service", and linked to the official websites of the people's governments of various districts to provide online memorial services for the public. Members of the public can also make an appointment online or by phone to apply for the service of the cemetery to pay homage to the ancestors. After making an appointment to clean the memorial on behalf of the cemetery, the relevant cemetery provides basic services such as wiping tombstones and laying flowers for free... Starting from a little "little thing", actively creating conditions to facilitate the off-site worship of citizens, highlighting the purpose of serving the people, and witnessing the unremitting efforts made by relevant departments and cemeteries to promote the change of customs and customs.

Each festival cleaning point also combines the actual situation and tries to provide various intimate services for the citizens to civilize the festival. For example, Babaoshan Funeral Home launched 63 service measures to benefit the people, increased the leasing service of flower products, advocated "renting for sale", and reduced public expenditure; Laoshan Columbarium has opened two water-soluble sacrificial halls to guide citizens to adopt a new type of civilized ritual to place their condolences, and set up a youth pioneer post to provide free wheelchairs for the elderly and disabled with inconvenient legs and feet... Facts show that each festival sweeping point continues to improve service measures, continuously improve the satisfaction of the masses, effectively promote civilized festival sweeping, green festival sweeping, and form a positive correlation effect. To carry forward the new style of the times, it is necessary to think big and start small like this, so that the service is more "warm", so that the change of customs and customs is more powerful, accumulated over time, perseverance, in the subtle transformation of customs into customs, promote the civilized literacy of citizens and the continuous improvement of the civilization level of the whole society, and achieve a virtuous circle and sustainable development.

Civilized sacrifice, safety first. After three years of the epidemic, the number of on-site grave sweepers this year will be significantly higher than in previous years, which puts forward higher requirements for safety work such as traffic and fire protection. The Beijing Municipal Public Security Traffic Management Department issued road traffic safety warnings and travel tips in a timely manner, increased police forces to strengthen traffic maintenance and guidance around cemeteries and cemeteries, promoted the rectification of hidden risks, and vigorously created a safe and smooth traffic environment. Various festival sweeping points have also come up with new tricks to strengthen the management of traffic services. For example, the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery implemented dual-cycle vehicle driving routes for the first time, and added guidance signs, set up green and convenient passages, and ensured the needs of special groups such as the elderly to pray, and so on. The facts also show that the traffic management department and the various festival sweeping points take the initiative to take the initiative, and carefully and emotionally ensure the "first hand chess" to ensure road safety and smooth flow, which effectively demonstrates the "temperature" of serving the people and vividly reflects the initiative and creativity of public services.

The proposal reaffirms the five strict prohibitions in the worship area: open flames, smoking, incense candles, paper money, and firecrackers in all cemeteries, reminding the general public to abide by the norms of civilized behavior. Fire departments and other departments and each festival sweeping point should always maintain a sense of responsibility, refine the implementation of responsibility, carry out "dragnet" investigation of the configuration of fire fighting facilities and equipment in cemeteries and surrounding areas, and parts that are prone to fire, resolutely eliminate potential safety hazards, and plug service management loopholes.

Changing customs is everyone's responsibility. Every citizen actively responded to the initiative and consciously combined the remembrance of ancestors with the promotion of excellent tutoring and family style, so as to achieve rational memorial and civilized sacrifice. As long as you, me, and he take active action, we will certainly be able to make the change of customs become the trend, and let the new wind of civilization blow all over the land of Beijing. (Beijing Youth Daily)