Beijing sets good ecological burial example

ECOLOGICAL BURIALS, which refer to sea burials, tree burials or other burials that do not occupy a special plot of land, accounted for 44 percent of the total burials in Beijing last year. Beijing News commented on Sunday:

The annual Tomb-Sweeping Day, which fell on Thursday this year, provided a good opportunity to assess the effects of the ecological burial trend in the capital that has gathered pace over the past 20 years.

In contrast with Beijing, ecological burials accounted for less than 1 percent in Wuhan in Central China's Hubei province.