{"id":965895,"date":"2021-11-04T05:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=965895"},"modified":"2021-11-04T05:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:44:03","slug":"china-digs-up-incinerates-corpse-over-family-objections-after-illegal-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-digs-up-incinerates-corpse-over-family-objections-after-illegal-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"China Digs Up, Incinerates Corpse over Family Objections After &#039;Illegal&#039; Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-digs-up-incinerates-corpse-over-family-objections-after-illegal-burial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=965895&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Police in southern China\u2019s Guizhou province recently exhumed and cremated a woman\u2019s corpse against her family\u2019s wishes as part of their strict enforcement of China\u2019s funeral reforms, which prohibit citizens from burying their dead to conserve land in certain regions, the<em> South China Morning Post (<\/em><em>SCMP)<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/environment\/article\/3154713\/china-burial-reform-elderly-womans-body-dug\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A resident surnamed Yang from Datang township in Guizhou province\u2019s&nbsp;Pingtang county told the&nbsp;<em>Chuncheng Evening News<\/em> on Tuesday \u201chis mother\u2019s body was removed from her grave and sent to a funeral home soon after her family buried her early last month,\u201d the <em>SCMP<\/em> relayed on November 3.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGround burial has long been a tradition in most rural areas across China, but a drive to replace it with cremation has swept the country in the past decade as the government encouraged more land-saving, eco-friendly funerals,\u201d the <em>SCMP<\/em> noted Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18597170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3ea41e12-3c63-11ec-a1b3-e785d5c8830c_image_hires_172937.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18597170 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3ea41e12-3c63-11ec-a1b3-e785d5c8830c_image_hires_172937.jpeg\" alt width=\"1098\" height=\"732\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Guizhou authorities dig up the body of an elderly woman and cremated it after her son gave her a traditional burial. Photo: ccwb.cn<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Datang\u2019s mayor, a man surnamed Huang, told the <em>Chuncheng Evening News<\/em>&nbsp;provincial government officials notified Yang of the new policy against ground burials \u201con three occasions before the burial and that he refused to comply.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Guizhou province sent more than 30 police officers to Datang on October 3 to exhume the corpse in question from its gravesite \u201cupon Huang\u2019s orders,\u201d according to the <em>SCMP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Huang confirmed to the&nbsp;<em>Chuncheng Evening News<\/em>&nbsp;provincial authorities cremated the woman\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18597186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3f2e4830-3c63-11ec-a1b3-e785d5c8830c_972x_172937.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18597186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3f2e4830-3c63-11ec-a1b3-e785d5c8830c_972x_172937.jpg\" alt=\"Police were ordered to exhume the body for cremation. Photo: ccwb.cn\" width=\"972\" height=\"541\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police were ordered to exhume the body for cremation. Photo: ccwb.cn<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs per regulations, after the village committee issued a death certificate, the funeral home cremated Yang\u2019s mother,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities in Yunnan province, which neighbors Guizhou, recently carried out similar actions in the name of upholding China\u2019s funeral reforms. Government officials in Yunnan\u2019s Weixin county have forcibly exhumed at least 11 corpses since October 23, according to local media reports cited by the <em>SCMP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5.55 million corpses were cremated across China in 2020 according to data published by China\u2019s Ministry of Civil Affairs. The figure accounts for 56 percent of all deaths in China last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party has increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-44603990\">enacted<\/a> \u201cfuneral reforms\u201d across China in recent years. The federal government <a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/group\/spatialhistory\/cgi-bin\/site\/project.php?id=1085\">developed<\/a> the initiative in response to China\u2019s infamous population crisis, according to Stanford University\u2019s Spatial History Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past thirty years, and even more aggressively over the recent decade, government officials and their private sector partners have ventured to rationalize the spatial distribution of human remains and to reduce the overall number of newly buried Chinese corpses through the simultaneous promotion of cremation,\u201d the project\u2019s researchers write.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe campaign has proceeded at a staggering rate, with well over ten million corpses being exhumed and relocated over the past two decades alone,\u201d according to the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in southern China\u2019s Guizhou province recently exhumed and cremated a woman\u2019s corpse against her family\u2019s wishes as part of their strict enforcement of China\u2019s funeral reforms, which prohibit citizens &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}