The China Will Bank provides free advice and services to give testators greater peace of mind about the disposal of their property after their death, Yang Yang reports.

On Friday morning, Wang Guifu carefully copied a draft of her will.

The two-page document took more than an hour to write, and every once in a while the gray-haired 84-year-old took a short break. She was desperate not to miswrite the characters, but even so her hands shook involuntarily, rendering some of the characters almost illegible.