China News Service, Beijing, April 4 (Reporter Wang Zumin) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Civil Affairs of China on the 4th that on the second day of the Qingming Festival holiday, the number of concentrated sacrifice sweepers across China decreased compared with the first day of the holiday (3rd). Safe and orderly.
April 3-5 is the Chinese Qingming Festival holiday.
According to the statistics of the Qingming Festival Sacrifice and Sweeping Work Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of China, on April 4, 22,189 funeral service agencies and 1,543 online funeral and sweeping platforms were opened across the country, and more than 330,000 staff participated in the service guarantee. A total of 5.73 million people visited the site and 6.04 million people were offered online, a decrease of 1.7% and 13.1% respectively compared with the 3rd.
According to official data, on the first day of the Qingming Festival holiday this year, 5.83 million people across China received on-site sacrifices, a decrease of 69.8% over the same period last year; 6.95 million people participated in online sacrifices, an increase of 275.7% over the same period last year.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs of China announced on the 4th that civil affairs and publicity, public security, transportation, emergency management, market supervision and other departments in various parts of China are closely cooperating to strictly implement epidemic prevention and control and safety management requirements, innovate service methods for sacrifice and sweeping, and improve service guarantee measures. Qingming holiday In the past two days, the ritual sweeping activities in various places were safe, stable and orderly.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs stated that the 5th is the last day of the Qingming Festival holiday, and it is also the day of the Qingming Festival. It is expected that many people will still travel around to worship.
The Qingming Festival Work Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will continue to guide local funeral service agencies to strengthen safety management and service guarantees to ensure public health, safety, and civilized sacrifice.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs reminds the public to keep abreast of local epidemic prevention and control measures, climate change, traffic congestion and other information, pay attention to the safety precautions of sacrifice sweeping, do a good job in personal protection, and choose civilized and low-carbon sacrifice sweeping methods such as online sacrifice sweeping and flower sacrifice sweeping to help achieve Peace and clarity.
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