Thorough investigation needed to get to bottom of Guilin official's suicide

TANG TIANSHENG, director of the food and drug administration of Guilin in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, committed suicide by jumping from the eighth floor of a local hospital building on Monday, one day after he went there to receive neurology treatment. The Beijing News commented on Tuesday:

Depression is usually the official explanation when an official commits suicide. But the local government has not yet offered an explanation for Tang's suicide, even though the usual explanation would have been very convenient for it this time as Tang ended his life while receiving neurology treatment in hospital.

However, Tang's bumpy career suggests the local political ecology is problematic.