Grave wrecking to continue in Henan

The civil affairs department in Zhou-kou, Henan Province, now says its controversial grave removal campaign will continue and the recovered lands will be returned to farming.

Hu Chaoyang, an official with the city's civil affairs department, denied previous reports that the city has stopped razing tombs and insisted that the move benefits the city's 12 million residents by returning the land to farming, according to the Legal Daily.

However, the newly amended Regulation on Funeral Management released on the central government's website on November 16 removes an article that gave local governments power to force residents to cremate deceased family members.

Previous media reports quoted a press official of the city as saying that the city government had stopped the campaign after the amended regulation was released.

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