Death is an inevitable part of life that touches everyone at one time or another. But the thought of it is something most people try to avoid.


For expats Cheap Zach Ertz Jersey , the possibility of death overseas might be a touchy matter, but the uncomfortable question is unavoidable: What happens to the remains if a person dies in China?


Usually, family members handle the paperwork and other formalities in the process of bringing a departed loved one back home. Help is available through companies in China that specialize in the repatriation of deceased expatriates.


One such enterprise is Roseates, a Beijing-based body repatriation service. The company has assisted in the transport of an average of 150 individuals annually back to their countries of origin.


According to China's National Funeral Association, which set up a nationwide network for international body repatriation, about 1,800 bodies are shipped out of China every year.


"The main causes of foreigners' deaths here are heart attacks and respiratory problems Cheap Jake Elliott Jersey ," said Belgium-born Wilfried Verbruggen, who founded Roseates in 2007.


But Verbruggen said the job over the past eight years has not been easy. Under current regulations, the company can only operate as a mediator.


"We depend on a certain number of licensed funeral homes, which are appointed by China's National Funeral Association, to take care of the main procedures," he said, adding that these tasks include the embalming and storage of the body.


Under international law Cheap Alshon Jeffery Jersey , the normal process of repatriation begins once a body is discovered and reported to an embassy, which then contacts the next of kin.


To transport the body, preservation is required first, Verbruggen said. Then, a translated death certificate and a quarantine certificate are obtained, and the company provides a coffin. Once the paperwork is done, a flight is arranged to transport the remains.


"Roseates has a fixed fee of 7 Cheap Nelson Agholor Jersey ,500 yuan ($1,200) for our services, but total costs of the repatriation can climb to an average of 80,000 yuan due to the costs imposed by the local funeral homes," Verbruggen said.


China's funerary industry is State-controlled and offers fixed prices for Chinese nationals. But when it comes to assisting foreigners, fees can increase significantly.


For example, the official price for embalming in China is 300 yuan. But foreigners pay an average of 8 Cheap Jay Ajayi Jersey ,000. For body storage, the average Chinese tariff is around 3 to 4 yuan per hour, but for foreigners it can jump to 20 yuan, he said.


In Shanghai, two funeral businesses, Longhua Funeral Parlor and Baoxing Funeral Parlor, offer a package of services Cheap Brian Dawkins Jersey , including embalming, finding a coffin and helping with the quarantine inspection.


Foreigners also face restrictions on burial in China. In 2008, the Ministry of Civil Affairs released a regulation on the management of foreigners' funerals and interment that largely banned their being buried in China.


In the case of cremation, some provinces and regions allow ashes to be buried.


For example, Shanghai Wanguo Cemetery takes applications if the deceased foreigners have made "exceptional contributions" to Chinese society, but the application needs to get municipal government approvals.


The Chinese automaker that sold more electric cars last year than Tesla, Nissan or GM is taking a back road into the American market on a battery-powered bus.


Detouring around the cost and risk of consumer sales Cheap Carson Wentz Jersey , BYD Co. has quietly built a U.S. business supplying rechargeable buses to environmentally-minded transit agencies. Its factory north of Los Angeles, opened in 2013, is on track to deliver 300 this year.

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The company has dipped its toe into the U.S. auto market by launching test fleets of plug-in electric taxis in Chicago and New York City.


Consumer sales are coming but BYD has yet to decide when, said Michael Austin, its vice president for the United States. He said it might start developing a sales network in the next two years.


"We have the manufacturing scale that can drive the cost to a point where we can bring vehicles to export markets including the United States, Latin America and Europe that will be game-changing," said Austin at BYD's headquarters in this southern city adjacent to Hong Kong.


Once that comes, "we get brand recognition because people already are riding our buses," said Austin.


BYD — the name stands for "Build Your Dreams" — is part of an emerging wave of Chinese companies that stand to profit from global demand for solar and wind power Cheap Nick Foles , electric cars and other clean and renewable energy.


They benefit from rising consumer interest abroad and heavy spending at home. Chinese leaders see what they call "new energy" as a field where China still can win a profitable leading role.


"I have no doubt BYD eventually can crack the market in Europe or the U.S.," said Cosmin Laslau, who follows the electric vehicle market for Lux Research in Boston.


It might take five to 10 years to achieve an "equal footing" with GM, Nissan or Tesla, "but it's surely doable if we look sufficiently far out," Laslau said.


"By deploying these buses first (in the United States), BYD can get an early lesson in how its batteries fare Wholesale Philadelphia Eagles Hats ," he said. "And if they are successful, they can point to that and say the battery you are going to get in your electric vehicle has already done a half-million miles in buses."


In 2014, China spent $83.3 billion in renewables, nearly one-third of the global total. That includes construction of hydro dams and wind farms, research grants to manufacturers and subsidies to customers.


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