New life for funeral industry

Huang Qiaoquan, director of the policy research office at the Beijing funeral supervision department, talks with METRO reporter Wang Ru about the funeral industry in Beijing and its prospects.

Was it easy for funeral homes to recruit new staff?

It's a job that has suffered from discrimination in our society because people treat death as a taboo. Ten years ago, we worried about recruiting new staff while the last generation of morticians approached retirement. The last batch of veteran staff will retire within 10 years.