The survivor, Tian Zeming, who is from Chongqing in southwestern China, was rescued on Wednesday around dawn.
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Officials said Wednesday that Tian was in an extremely weak condition when found in an excavated hole under the building’s roof, Agence France-Presse reported. It took three hours from when Tian was first located until he was pulled out.
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The landslide is the latest in a series of fatal accidents in China and comes just months after a massive chemical blast in the industrial city of Tianjin killed almost 200 people.
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While Zeming is lucky to be alive, official estimates say at least 70 people are still missing after the landslide.
According to reports, the landslide happened when a huge man-made mound of earth and construction waste collapsed after heavy rains, prompting the government to open an official investigation into the incident.
Mr Tian, who had been partially protected by a door, had become dehydrated because had no water to drink, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.
The confirmed death toll ticked up to two, with a so-far-unidentified body being recovered, local website Shenzhen News said, showing a photo of rescue workers with heads bowed in a moment of silence.
Firefighters had to squeeze into a narrow room around him and pull debris out, rescuer Zhang Yabin told Xinhua.
The vice-president of dump site company Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment and Development was detained on Tuesday afternoon, China Radio International reported.
54-year-old migrant worker Li Qiying was washing vegetables in the Hengtaiyu Industrial Park kitchen when her son stormed in, grabbed her and dragged her out of the building in a hurry. “The rescue work won’t slow”, said Yue Xi, a police officer involved in rescue operations at the scene.
“We never thought it could be risky”, he said.
A total of 1,817 disaster-affected people have been evacuated. However, there is no explanation as how so much mud has engulfed the area.
The landslide on Sunday buried homes and businesses in red mud up to 32 feet deep and thousands of feet wide.
The team, in charge of three expert panels focusing on land, work safety and disaster relief, is headed by Jiang Daming, Minister of Land and Resources.
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Wang Yongquan, who narrowly escaped the Shenzhen landslide, said he and his neighbors had watched trucks carrying construction waste for the past two years, and seen a mountain of rubble grow where once was a hollow quarry.
