Rules aim at death sector misconduct

Funeral-related fraud, cemetery speculators among the targets

China will crack down on cemetery speculators and funeral-related fraud in a three-month campaign starting this month to address the most acute problems in the sector, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Monday.

The crackdown will cover all funeral parlors, cemeteries, morgues, rural nonprofit burial sites and ash storage facilities affiliated with religious sites. And it will address issues the public is most concerned about that have received a lot of media attention, the ministry said.