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Former Shenzhen deputy mayor Chen Yingchun. Police are investigating his death. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Former deputy mayor of Shenzhen dies after fall from building

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.

Chen climbed up the political ladder and was appointed assistant to Shenzhen’s mayor and deputy secretary-general of the municipal government in 1993.

He was later named chief and deputy party secretary of the Luohu district of Shenzhen, the site of an important immigration control point between the city and Hong Kong.

Chen was promoted to vice mayor in 2003 and held the position until May last year. He was also a member of the Shenzhen municipal standing committee for over seven years.

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Chen stepped down from his political roles in June last year following the completion of his term in office.

“Chen has been devoting his attention to internet finance businesses in Shenzhen since 2013,” a report posted last June on the Communist Party’s official website said.

The report spoke highly of Chen’s achievement in governing financial affairs in Shenzhen, describing the former deputy mayor as a “warm-hearted and meticulous” leader.

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