A Chinese Communist Party official has committed suicide. Li Xiaoqiu, the deputy director of Inner Mongolia’s Department of Culture and Tourism, who was himself a Mongolian, has just been confirmed to have committed suicide, with no official reason given. The Chinese Communist Party has been pushing Chinese language education in Inner Mongolia, and some Mongolian officials have committed suicide as a result. However, it has not been confirmed whether Li Xiaoqiu was involved in corruption.
The Communist Party’s Xinhua website just released news on May 19 that Li Xiaoqiu, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has committed suicide. The reason is not known.
According to public information on the mainland, Li Xiaoqiu (August 1962-2021), male, Mongolian, a native of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, was a member of the party group and deputy director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Since August last year, the Chinese Communist authorities have been pushing Chinese language teaching in Inner Mongolia, sparking fierce protests that have also included officials of the Mongolian ethnic group.
On September 13 last year, netizens disclosed that Yuan, the principal of the Mongolian elementary school in Erlianhot, Inner Mongolia, committed suicide in her home that afternoon. She had just resigned because the Chinese Communist authorities had forced Mongolian schools to cancel Mongolian language education. This is another tragic case of a civil servant committing suicide, following the death of a Mongolian female civil servant, Su Rina, who fell from a building in Alashan League on September 4.
The authorities continue to push under high pressure to maintain stability, and continue to “hold” local officials accountable.
The government forced local officials to go on television to show their support for the government’s universal language policy, but some of them refused and were dismissed from their posts. The police handcuffed and shackled seven people and took them to the police station. The seven are believed to be the ringleaders, while in China only heavy criminal offenders are shackled and handcuffed.
Sources said that Inner Mongolia has been completely silenced and that authorities are listening to or following every journalist who tries to go there.
In addition, the Communist Party’s anti-corruption campaign has seen a number of officials commit suicide as a result of corruption-related investigations.
It has not been confirmed what caused the suicide of Li Xiaoqiu, deputy director of Inner Mongolia’s Department of Culture and Tourism.
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