CHINA DAILY

Eco-friendly burials

More than 300 people took time over the weekend to commemorate their dead relatives to mark the Qingming festival along the shore in Tianjin.

The group scattered petals in the sea.

Sea burials are becoming more common in China, given that burials have become much more expensive.

SHANGHAI DAILY

Qingming numbers down, but still gridlock

New figures suggest the number of people in Shanghai who took time to visit cemeteries for the Qingming Festival came in down more than 13 percent
Around 3 million people visited the city's cemeteries.

THE BEIJING NEWS

Antiques book

A book laying out a series of Chinese antiquities collected by the London-based Victoria and Albert Museum has been published.

The book has been compliled by the National Museum of China.

CHANGJIANG TIMES

Abandoned embryos

New analysis is suggesting that 3 out of 5 unused embryonic eggs extracted from a woman for embryonic implants are abandoned by the would-be mothers in China.

Keeping frozen eggs costs around 24-hundred yuan per year, which is something many parents don't want to pay, particularly if they've had a child already.

BEIJING MORNING POST

Record Park visits

New figures are suggesting more than 20-thousand tourists entered parks in Beijing at 2pm yesterday afternoon, setting a new hourly record.

Authorities say they believe a rush on people hoping to see the spring flower blossoms is the main reason.

THE BEIJING NEWS

Tomb-sweeping services offered online

New stats show around 600-thousand people visited websites here in China offering tomb-sweeping proxy services.

The fad, which exploded a couple of years ago, allows people to pay money to have someone else weep and offer prayer services for dead family members.