This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-04-04 07:13
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
An item from April 5, 1996, in China Daily showed people planting trees on Tomb Sweeping Day as a way to remember the dead.
In 1995, China's cremation rate reached 33.7 percent, thanks to a series of measures that the government took to save the country's shrinking farmland.
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