Zhang, 62, was a worker in 1974 when they started digging a tunnel on a 3,800-meter-high mountain.
"We spent three years to complete the tunnel, but some people died from floods during construction or were killed by falling stones," he said. "I miss them so much."
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Shi and Zhang are among the hundreds of thousands of Chinese mourning the dead on Tomb-sweeping Day, which falls on Tuesday.
A cemetery in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, swarms with people, where Yang Xue and more than ten volunteers offer help to visitors, directing traffic and providing consultation.
"We will be working here for ten days," she said.
Yang is a first-year student from the funeral institute of the Changsha Social Work College.
"I feel professionally close to the festival," she added.
The institute, founded in 1995, is the first of its kind in China. Subjects for students range from funeral oration and management to embalming. A few years ago, the students were reluctant to talk about their major. But the situation is changing.
"With the development of society, humanism is increasingly important to customers, and the old funeral workers are already outdated," said Su Lihui, a teacher with the institute. "Therefore, our graduates are in need."
Su told Xinhua that in 2016, there were more than 900 posts offered to more than 200 graduates. On average each student had four options.
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