A pilot program that offers free basic funeral services to some will soon be implemented nationwide and be available to everyone, civil affair authority said. The news was welcomed on Tomb-sweeping Day, which was Monday, due to the skyrocketing cost of funerals, especially tombs and land. The average price of tomb space is often many times higher than the cost of local housing prices. The new program is expected to save about 1,000 yuan ($146) in funeral expenses, the average cost of basic funeral services for one person. The fees include transport the body, storage and cremation, China Central Television reported Sunday. But the ministry did not offer a detailed plan or timetable for the implementation of the program. Currently, nine provinces, regions and municipalities offer favorable polices to local residents, especially disadvantaged families, according to a report issued by the ministry on Friday. The report said the country dog clothes, spent about 400 million yuan to subsidize 924,000 funerals. About 132 million low-income people are eligible for subsidies or discounts. In South China's dog clothes Shenzhen, poor residents are allowed to have basic funeral services at no cost. The government also sells flowers, urns, coffins and other funeral products to ensure fair prices, Zhen Xiaoxia, an official with the city's civil affairs department, was quoted as saying by the Xinhua News Agency on Sunday. It is the latest government effort to stem a public outcry against the funeral industry, which is accused of robbing the living to bury the dead. In a poll by sohu.com, 92 percent of 5,600 respondents agreed the funeral industry is reaping too much profit, the Xinhua report said, adding that tombs are one of the major sources of profit for the industry. In a suburban maple story mesos, graveyard in west Beijing, Liu Hai bought a 0.8 square meter tomb for 75,000 yuan, according to the Xinhua report. "The tomb's price per square maple story mesos meter was even higher than that of premium apartments in urban Beijing. But it was for my mother, I had no choice," Liu says. In Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia, tombs of several square meters are priced from 5,000 yuan to 60,000 yuan while urban apartments cost 4,700 yuan per square meter, Zhang Fengying, owner of a tomb agency, told Xinhua. Tomb price in Changchun, Jilin Province, reached more than 20,000 yuan per square meter, five times the city's price of commercial housing. Some of the tombs are priced at about 270,000 yuan, according to local New Culture View. City governments, which put a priority wow gold, on using land for housing, are very prudent in allocating land for graves that lead to a short supply shortage, said Liu Tieliang, vice president of Chinese wow gold Folklore Society, according to the Xinhua report. To meet the demand, more suburban graveyards need to be developed. More importantly, rural graveyards need to improve their service and management style to win over urban customers, Liu says. The ministry will world of warcraft gold introduce more stringent regulations on prices of services offered by the funeral industry to rein in unreasonably high prices of some services and funeral items, the ministry said without world of warcraft gold elaborating in a document published on its website Thursday. In a related development, a total of 17 people were killed in fire accidents nationwide during the Tomb-sweeping Day, when people paid tribute to the dead by burning joss sticks and paper money. The Ministry of Public world of warcraft power leveling, Security said Monday that from world of warcraft power leveling Saturday to Monday, 1,650 fires broke out nationwide because of tomb-sweeping ceremonies, killing 17 people and injuring 32. Around 450 million people in the country observed Tomb-sweeping this year, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.