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Posted on 05/22/2018 10:32:25 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Top Beijing Official's Suicide Highlights a Bureaucracy Under Pressure: Analysts
A top ruling Chinese Communist Party official in the Beijing city government has committed suicide, leading state media to conclude that he had suffered from long-term depression.
Wang Xiaoming, deputy secretary-general of the Beijing municipal government, was found dead on Monday after attending a work conference. He was 58.
State media said police had ruled out any criminal activity, although an investigation into Wang's death is under way.
Hospital diagnostic records show that Wang, who previously served as director of the Beijing municipal tax bureau, had long suffered from depression, media reports indicated.
Wang's is the latest in a series of deaths of high-ranking Chinese officials.
Last month, Feng Zhonghong, deputy mayor of Daqing city in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, died of unknown causes.
In January, former deputy head of the municipal People's Congress standing committee, Mei Zhenxue, died just four days after taking office, while Xie Yaoqi, deputy mayor of Heyuan city in the southern province of Guangdong, died at his home last December.
Beijing-based political commentator Zha Jianguo said pressures are intensifying on officials across China, who are struggling to find alternate sources of income to supplement their meager official salaries.
A top ruling Chinese Communist Party official in the Beijing city government has committed suicide, leading state media to conclude that he had suffered from long-term depression.
Wang Xiaoming, deputy secretary-general of the Beijing municipal government, was found dead on Monday after attending a work conference. He was 58.
State media said police had ruled out any criminal activity, although an investigation into Wang's death is under way.
Hospital diagnostic records show that Wang, who previously served as director of the Beijing municipal tax bureau, had long suffered from depression, media reports indicated.
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Decent people being driven to take their own lives because its not worth it to do public work.
Its a sad story.
They’re losing their faces and can’t find them anywhere...
After throwing himself off a 20 story building, he shot himself in the back of the head 5 times.
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