Liao Guoxun, deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and mayor, died of a sudden illness on Wednesday at the age of 59.Liao was appointed mayor of Tianjin in September 2020.
Born in February 1963, Liao is a native of Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to the Tianjin Municipal People's Government website.