Liao Guoxun, Mayor of Tianjin, died at 59 after a sudden illness, according to the
Municipality’s Tianjin Daily. It said on its WeChat account on April 28 that Liao Guoxun, who
was also the Tianjin Municipality Deputy Party Secretary, had died a day earlier. He was last
seen in public on April 25, along with Tianjin party chief Li Hongzhong and other officials at
a meeting about curbing pollution. At the meeting Liao Guoxun was quoted by Tianjin Daily
as having said “[We] must resolutely implement Xi Jinping’s thoughts on ecological
civilisation … and fight the battle for blue sky, clean water and earth with greater determination,
strong strength, and higher standards”. He was appointed Deputy Mayor of Tianjin in 2020.
He was an associate of Li Zhanshu, PBSC member and Chairman of the National People’s
Congress, who worked in Guizhou in 2012. While in Zhejiang, he also worked with Xia
Baolong, who now oversees Hong Kong affairs.
(Comment: An ethnic Tujia, Liao Guoxun was a CCP cadre on the fast track and with his
connection to Li Zhanshu would have been in line for elevation at the 20th Party Congress.)
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