A top Chinese nuclear power expert and high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official committed suicide for unknown reasons in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang Province, according to a number of outlet reports.
On June 17, Zhang Zhijian, a 58-year-old male professor of nuclear power at Harbin Engineering University (HEU), jumped off an office building and killed himself, according to an official notice released by his employer. The announcement said local police declared that they had ruled out the likelihood of murder after investigating the scene, but they didn’t give a reason for the suicide.
