{"id":76879,"date":"2026-03-31T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/31\/china-bans-storing-ashes-apartments"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:54:45","slug":"china-to-ban-storing-remains-of-dead-in-bone-ash-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76879","title":{"rendered":"China to ban storing remains of dead in \u2018bone ash apartments\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practice of using apartments to store relatives\u2019 ashes has risen as rapid urbanisation and ageing population increases competition for cemetery plots<\/p>\n<p>China is introducing a law to stop people storing the ashes of their dead relatives in empty high-rise flats rather than paying steep costs for increasingly scarce cemetery plots.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s new funeral management legislation will prohibit the use of \u201cresidential housing specifically for the purpose of storing cremated remains\u201d and the burial of corpses or construction of tombs in \u201careas other than public cemeteries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/31\/china-bans-storing-ashes-apartments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice of using apartments to store relatives\u2019 ashes has risen as rapid urbanisation and ageing population increases competition for cemetery plotsChina is introducing a law to stop people storing the ashes of their dead relatives in empty high-rise &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1777,1219,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-death-and-dying","category-real-estate","category-society","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76879\/revisions\/76880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}