The small city of Jishou made a similar purchase two weeks later.
“In Jieshou City in recent days, the volume of cremation business has increased, the funeral hall’s remains refrigerator can not meet the current unit demand. Now buy 10 units of three-door freezer for total investment 400,000 yuan,” the tender read.
The facility could not be reached for comment.
Guangdong, China’s most populous province, and where the city of Shantou is located, saw its funeral homes spend more than 130 million yuan on various items between December 7 and January 6, compared with the same period last year. Compared to 90 million yuan. For a provincial government database.
‘Ideal option’
Noting the surge in demand, Hangtai, a manufacturer of incinerators in Shandong province, published an advertisement for its services on its WeChat account.
“In December 2022, as the country adjusted its COVID policy, funeral parlors’ cremation business increased, and demand for cremation equipment from funeral parlors increased in some regions,” it said.
Advertising for its “quick-assembly intelligent” incinerator emphasizes the ease and speed with which the machine can operate, and how it can “address the current boom in business for funeral homes and the need for additional cremation equipment”. is the ideal choice”.
“Hangtai engineers and technicians have actively responded to market demand by working around the clock to make further improvements around technical aspects of rapid installation, convenience and durability,” it said.
Hangtai said its 40,000-square-metre plant was at full production capacity “working 24 hours overtime to meet customers’ urgent purchase needs”.
On December 29, Hangtai beat out eight competitors for one of the highest recent bids in Guangzhou of 23 million yuan ($3.4 million), more than half of which were sold in Guangzhou, according to publicly available documents reviewed by Reuters. Will be used on incinerators.
A Hangtai employee declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.