Funeral firm Fu Shou Yuan takes up Xi’s call for ‘shared future of mankind’, wants to service Belt and Road countries too
- Company wants to double revenue contributed by end-of-life value-added services in next five years
They make your clothes, your smartphones, your electronics and your cars, among other numerous items of daily use. And now a Chinese company wants to handle your funeral too.
One of the latest companies to answer Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call to build a “shared future for mankind” is Fu Shou Yuan, the country’s biggest funeral services provider.
“President Xi said it was a target for China to build ‘a community with a shared future for mankind’. We think the service by our company provides will make sure life ends well. Which makes it an important part of his call,” Wu Yibo, the company’s assistant president, said last week. He was speaking on the sidelines of the Asia Funeral and Cemetery Expo & Conference in Hong Kong.
The company is keen on expanding its footprint in markets part of Beijing’s “Belt and Road Initiative” after selling a cremator and signing an agreement with local authorities to become a cemetery operator in Simferopol on the Crimean Peninsula last year.
“Just like in China, burials are more acceptable than cremations in many Belt and Road countries.
“The pilot project in Crimea proves our cremator offers a higher value for money and quality than similar machines made in Germany. It passes all kinds of environmental protection standards, with zero emissions,” he said.
