Green tomb-sweeping gains more acceptance in China

STORY: Green tomb-sweeping gains more acceptance in China DATELINE: April 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the tomb-sweeping activities online and offline 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIU XITAO, Staff, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd. 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XU SHUJUN, Staff, Nanxiangshan Cemetery in Nanjing STORYLINE: China has witnessed green and low-carbon tomb-sweeping activities in this year's Qingming Festival holiday. The Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, which falls on Tuesday this year, is a traditional Chinese holiday for people to pay tribute to the dead and worship ancestors. Agencies in charge of funeral services have provided online tribute-paying services by creating mourning websites and other commemorative platforms on the internet. According to data from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, on Sunday, the first day of the three-day Qingming Festival holiday, 6.95 million Chinese attended virtual memorial ceremonies on 2,304