Manufacturers of coffins, urns, and other funeral supplies in China said they are experiencing an unprecedented shortage.
The Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times recently learned of the shortage from inquiries to multiple urn and coffin manufacturers.
Coffins Out of Stock
A netizen from Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province of China, revealed in a post on Jan. 12 that at their company’s Lunar New Year party, everyone was talking about the recently deceased elderly at home, the long waiting list for cremation, and the collapsed funeral industry. “Several [company] leaders have to keep their parents’ bodies at home before cremation,” said the post.
