Study On The Supply Of Funeral Services In Shanghai Urban Areas

In the process of urbanizations, the supply of public services has becoming a vital element in the evaluation of the abilities of government administration. The service-oriented government has becoming a primary symbol of the socialization of public affairs management. Funeral services, as a sector of social public services, are closely related with the people’s daily life and they are being paid more and more attention. The funeral services industry in Shanghai urban areas was established and developed in the planned economy. It is a monopolized and isolated industry without adequate opening development. And its management system,its operating mechanism and its service mode are far behind the requirements of the market economic development. The supply of funeral services in Shanghai urban areas are highly administrative monopolized. The conflict between supply and demand is acute. The staffs who are engaged in the funeral service industry are not well trained on the whole level. As a result, the urban funeral service level is relatively low in this metropolis. The essay is going to make a deep discussion about the funeral services in Shanghai urban areas by theoretic research and evidence analysis.The purpose of the research is to resolve the insufficient supply of the funeral services in Shanghai urban areas with the urban government public service supply theory. It begins with the existing problems and then lays stress on the significance in further optimizing the funeral services. It discusses the current condition of the funeral industry in the city with the challenges which the industry is facing as the background and analyzes the reasons of the inadequate supply of the services. In the last part of the article, we provide the corresponding suggestions on the basis of huge amount of theoretic research and sufficient data analysis. The monopoly in the supply of funeral services in urban areas should be broken down. The process of commercialization should be accelerated. The function of government should be transferred in order to exert full influence of the social organizations and to provide the funeral services with people’s satisfaction. The legal system on the funeral management which is accord with the market economy should be amplified, the supervision mechanism of the funeral services should be perfected with the government’s supervision function be strengthened.Public services have becoming the crucial force in the government vitality. And it has more practical value and theoretic meanings of the innovation in the supply of urban funeral services on the concept construction of“public services oriented government”.