CHINA--INTERNAL: CHONGQING DEPUTY PARTY SECRETARY COMMITS SUICIDE AT 4TH PLENUM MEETING IN BEIJING
54-year old Ren Xuefeng, Deputy Party Secretary of the centrally controlled Chongqing Municipality, died on October 31, the last day of at the 4th plenary meeting of the CCP CC, by jumping from Jingxi Hotel in Beijing. His remains were cremated at the Changping District Crematorium in Beijing instead of Beijing’s Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
(Comment: Ren Xuefeng was an Alternate member of the CCP's 19th CC. Rumours circulating in China claim that he was being investigated and preferred to commit suicide instead of jail time. Bo Xilai was formerly Party Secretary of Chongqing.)
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