china has witnessed green and low-carbon tomb-sweeping activities in this year's qingming festival holiday.
the qingming festival, or tomb-sweeping day, which falls on tuesday this year, is a traditional chinese holiday for people to pay tribute to the dead and worship ancestors.
agencies in charge of funeral services have provided online tribute-paying services by creating mourning websites and other commemorative platforms on the internet.
according to data from the ministry of civil affairs, on sunday, the first day of the three-day qingming festival holiday, 6.95 million chinese attended virtual memorial ceremonies on 2,304 online platforms, growing by 275.7 percent from a year earlier.
