China Cities Running Out of Room for Dead

The flip side of China’s booming population: 9 million burials a year and packed cemeteries. Burial plots are getting so scarce that officials are urging a cultural shift by encouraging the scattering of ashes at sea, reports USA Today . Beijing, for instance, is destined to “become just a city of…

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China Cities Running Out of Room for Dead

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