Chinanews.com, March 3 -- The Ministry of Civil Affairs held a regular press conference for the first quarter of 31 on March 31. At the meeting, Wang Jinhua, director of the Department of Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said that the normalized funeral service guarantee work will be fully resumed, it is strictly forbidden to arbitrarily restrict and suspend funeral services, and the mass sacrifice service guarantee work on the Qingming Festival will be done in a solid and meticulous manner.
Data map: On March 3, on the occasion of the Qingming Festival, the third public open day was held in Beijing's Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. The picture shows the staff performing the service on behalf of the sacrifice. Photo by China News Agency reporter Yi Haifei
A reporter asked: This year's Qingming Festival is coming, and all localities are about to usher in the peak of mass gathering, what response and safeguard measures has the Ministry of Civil Affairs taken?
Wang Jinhua pointed out that this year's Qingming Festival is the first Qingming Festival after achieving a major and decisive victory in epidemic prevention and control and the implementation of Class B tubes. Due to the epidemic, many people have not been able to return to their hometowns to pay homage to the deceased in three years, and this year's Qingming Festival people's needs for cleaning up, burials and memorials to their loved ones will increase significantly. Coupled with the fact that there is only one day during the Qingming Festival holiday, the characteristics of "short time, large flow, small space, and high density" are more prominent, and the flow of people on the day of the Qingming Festival will be greater. Therefore, the service guarantee work of the Qingming Festival festival in various places will face greater pressure, and the tasks and responsibilities will be heavier than in previous years.
"Whether our sacrificial cleaning service guarantee work can meet the needs of the masses, especially the demand for centralized release, is not only a test of the service ability of civil affairs departments and their funeral service organizations, but also an important yardstick to test whether we can use practical actions to achieve, safeguard, and develop the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people." He said.
Wang Jinhua said that in order to do a good job in ensuring the cleaning service of this year's Qingming Festival, the Ministry of Civil Affairs mainly made the following work arrangements and arrangements in the early stage:
The first is to issue notices and hold video conferences to make arrangements for the national Qingming Festival festival cleaning work. All localities are required to fully understand the special importance of doing a good job in this year's Qingming Festival festival cleaning work, effectively enhance their sense of political responsibility, and take it as an important measure to maintain the overall stability of society; Strengthen the situation assessment and risk assessment of the Qingming Festival cleaning work, formulate work plans, clarify specific measures, and do everything possible to improve the level of service guarantee for festival cleaning; Adhere to the problem-oriented, always maintain an all-out attitude, always adhere to foolproof standards, fully resume the normalization of funeral service guarantee work, strictly prohibit arbitrary restrictions and suspension of funeral services, and do a solid and meticulous job in the mass sacrifice service guarantee work of Qingming Festival; Establish bottom-line thinking, enhance the awareness of danger, strictly perform duties and responsibilities, improve work style, unremittingly do a good job in the prevention and resolution of various risks and hidden dangers of the Qingming Festival, and ensure that the Qingming Festival festival is safe, civilized and orderly.
The second is to focus on strengthening the organization and leadership of the Qingming Festival festival cleaning work. All localities are required to effectively strengthen organizational leadership, establish and improve the working mechanism of "party committee leadership, government responsibility, departmental coordination, and social participation", formulate relevant work plans and plans, and consolidate the "four-party" responsibilities of territories, departments, institutions, and individuals, especially the responsibility of departmental supervision and the main responsibility of institutions, to ensure the safe, stable and orderly clean-up work of the Qingming Festival. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has specially set up an office for the clean-up work of the Qingming Festival, with ministry leaders and department leaders leading shifts on duty, and timely planning and dispatching the guarantee of festival cleaning services in various places. At the same time, local civil affairs departments are required to correspondingly set up offices or establish special working mechanisms for Qingming Festival festival clean-up work, responsible for the overall planning and coordination, information release, monitoring and early warning of Qingming Festival festival clean-up work, strictly implement the on-duty duty and information reporting system, and promptly report to the local party committee, government, and higher-level civil affairs department in case of major situations and problems.
The third is to put forward clear requirements for the Qingming Festival service guarantee work of funeral service institutions. All funeral service institutions are required to timely release relevant information on ritual cleaning through mobile clients, WeChat public accounts and other service channels, so as to facilitate the public to grasp the dynamics of sacrifice and cleaning in a timely manner; Strictly implement relevant management service standards and specifications, and ensure that service items, charging standards and measures to benefit the people are publicly announced; Starting from the convenience of mass festivals, we will find ways to provide more high-quality, efficient, convenient and warm services by adding service windows, extending service hours, optimizing service processes, innovating service methods, and strengthening humanistic care, and continuously improving public satisfaction. Fully consider the difficulty of different groups, especially the elderly, in using intelligent technology, retain the traditional offline service model, set up green and convenient channels, and ensure the needs of special groups. On the basis of full investigation and demonstration, reservations, peak shifts, flow restrictions, etc. are adopted to reduce the density of people during the peak period of the festival and prevent all kinds of safety accidents.
The fourth is to strengthen policy publicity and guide the masses to civilize low-carbon sacrifices. All localities are required to take advantage of the opportunity of the Qingming Festival to increase the publicity of funeral reform policies, actively organize and carry out ecological burial activities such as sea burial of ashes and tree burial, and encourage and guide more people to choose ecological burial methods in the festival; Actively coordinate with the news media, excavate and publicize local funeral work and good practices and new results in changing customs and customs, and let the Qingming Festival publicity work enter the community and serve the public by holding online micro-classes, making publicity windows, and distributing leaflets; Vigorously promote civilized low-carbon festival sweeping methods such as flower offering, greening and tree planting, collective joint sacrifices, and family memorials, encourage and guide the masses to organically combine the remembrance of the deceased with the promotion of excellent tutoring and family customs, shift from on-site physical sacrifices to the spiritual and cultural inheritance of the deceased, constantly enrich the connotation of Qingming festivals, and advocate new trends of changing customs and customs.
The fifth is to set up a research and guidance group to carry out special research and guidance work on mass festivals in some provinces on the eve of the Qingming Festival. From March 3 to 20, the Ministry of Civil Affairs organized seven research groups, led by leaders at the department and bureau level, to visit 31 provinces (cities) including Hebei and Shandong to conduct on-site inspections, thorough investigations, supervision and inspections focusing on the situation of the Qingming Festival mass festival cleaning service guarantee work, and effectively grasp the typical experience and practices formed in various places, the blocking points and difficulties encountered, the hot issues reported by the people, and relevant work opinions and suggestions. Judging from the investigation situation, the party committees and governments and civil affairs departments in various localities attached great importance to this year's Qingming Festival cleaning work, many local party committees and government leaders made instructions and put forward requirements, and responsible comrades of civil affairs departments took the lead in inspecting and guiding the work of funeral service institutions and checking the service guarantee capacity. Many places entered the Qingming Festival cleaning stage in early March, and it is now seen that the Qingming Festival cleaning work in various places is stable and orderly.