Tombs grabbing land

As a home in the afterworld, a tomb is what most Chinese people want. However, the increasing number of tombs now poses a threat to land space.

It has become of real concern how to reduce the land area taken up by cemeteries, or curb the surprising speed at which the dead are competing with the living for limited land resources.

The traditional belief that the dead will not lead a peaceful life in the afterworld until their corpses or ashes are buried in a tomb has prompted many, who are much better off today than before, to build tombs for their parents or relatives. Some even do this for their parents who are still alive, believing in the traditional saying that a tomb readied will help their parents live longer.