A former deputy mayor of Shenzhen in southern China has died after falling from a building, state media reported.
Police were called after receiving a report that a person was dead after they fell from a building in a private residential community in the Futian district on Tuesday, the China News Service reported.
The man was confirmed by the authorities to be Chen Yingchun, who had served as vice mayor for over eleven years. He was 59.
The case is still under investigation, police said.
The Futian district houses many city government departments in Shenzhen.
Chen, a native of southern Hainan province, graduated from Sun Yat-sen University with a degree in economics before starting his political career in the commercial office of the Guangdong provincial government in early 1982.
He was relocated to Shenzhen in the same year, working on commercial and financial planning when the newly-established Special Economic Zone was playing a pioneering role in China’s drive toward reform and opening.