Expiring gets expensive as Shanghai cemeteries fill up

The battle for land in Shanghai is entering a tumultuous new phase as the city faces the need to allocate more space for the dead amid soaring prices of burial sites.

A tomb site of less than one square metre in Shanghai now carries a price tag of as much as 50,000 yuan (HK$62,155) - more than double the average 22,500 yuan per square metre paid for a home in the city at the end of last year.

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