This is a list of

cemeteries A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

in the People's Republic of China. Many others—particularly in central urban areas—were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, which regularized the use of cremation even in the cases of religious minorities such as the Hui. Since the Opening-Up Policy began in the 1980s, mortuary sites have been reopened in more out-lying areas, run as commercial operations. * Cemetery of Confucius,

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

* Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, Beijing * National Revolutionary Army Memorial Cemetery ("Hope Valley Park"), Jiangsu * Astana Cemetery, Xinjiang *

Cemetery of Zhaojun The Zhaojun Tomb (), located by the Da Hi River nine kilometers south of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, is said to be the resting place of Wang Zhaojun, a commoner woman from the Han dynasty who married a Xiongnu ''Chanyu'', nomadic chieftain from th ...

, Inner Mongolia *

Mawangdui Mawangdui () is an archaeological site located in Changsha, China. The site consists of two saddle-shaped hills and contained the tombs of three people from the Changsha Kingdom during the western Han dynasty (206 BC – 9 AD): the Chancellor Li ...

at Changsha, Hunan *

Foochow Mission Cemetery Foochow Mission Cemetery (; Foochow Romanized: ''Iòng-muó-dìng'') was a Protestant cemetery once located on the north and south side of a hill at the west end of Maiyuan Road, Cangshan District, Fuzhou, China. Covering an area of about , Foochow ...

Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute t ...

* 44 at present in Shanghai, including the

Longhua Martyrs' Memorial Longhua may refer to: Places in the People's Republic of China * Longhua County (隆化县), in Hebei * Longhua District, Shenzhen (龙华区), in Shenzhen, Guangdong * Longhua District, Haikou (龙华区), in Haikou, Hainan * Longhua Temple (龙� ...

and the Wanguo Gumou housing the remains of Soong Ching-ling

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