Que Jingde: Just the first of many

Among that lifted from beneath the rubble of the collapsed 13-storey apartment block in Shanghai's Minhang district on June 27 is a shroud of secrecy.

Now known nationwide, Que Jingde, an assistant to the director of Minhang's local Meilong Town government, as it turns out, is also the second largest shareholder in the building's developer, Shanghai Meidu Real Estate Co.

The 51-year-old has held various other government posts in previous years, including head of the Meilong Town Land Requisition Department, general manager of Meilong Town Asset Management Co, chief at the Meilong demolition and relocation office for the Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Project, and chairman and Party secretary of the Shanghai Xunhao land development company.