Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 4 (Reporters Zhu Gaoxiang and Wei Guanyu) April 4 is the traditional Chinese festival Qingming Festival. The reporter learned from the Ministry of Civil Affairs that on the 4th, 65,500 funeral service agencies nationwide provided on-site memorial service, receiving 33.0261 million people to commemorate throughout the day, guiding 7.5019 million vehicles, and 558,300 staff participated in service guarantee. Among them, 21.0807 million people chose green and low-carbon methods such as flower memorial service, accounting for 63.83% of the total number of people on-site memorial service; 1,576 online memorial service platforms served 590,100 people.

　　On the 4th, a total of 22,100 ashes were buried by funeral service agencies across the country, of which 1,634 were used for ecological burial methods such as sea burial and tree burial. Civil affairs departments in various places have strengthened organizational guarantees, implemented safety management responsibilities for memorial service, established and improved emergency response mechanisms, strengthened service guarantees for memorial service, advocated funeral changes in customs, and made it safe, stable and orderly for people to pay homage.

　　It is expected that the number of people traveling to worship in various places will remain high during the two days of holidays tomorrow and the next two days. The Ministry of Civil Affairs reminds the general public to pay attention to local weather, road conditions and other information in a timely manner, travel at a staggered peak, and worship in a civilized and low-carbon manner, and spend a safe, civilized and peaceful Qingming Festival.