Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died of a heart attack at 68
FILE - Then Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks during a press conference after the closing session of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on March 15, 2019. Former Premier Li Keqiang, China's top economic official for a decade, died Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 of a heart attack. He was 68. Li was China’s No.
Li was dropped from the Standing Committee at a party congress in October 2022 despite being two years below the informal retirement age of 70. Li was seen as a possible candidate to revive then-supreme leader Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented reforms of the 1980s that started China’s boom. But he was known for an easygoing style, not the hard-driving impatience of Zhu Rongji, the premier in 1998-2003 who ignited the construction and export booms by forcing painful reforms that cut millions of jobs from state industry.
Xi took away Li’s decision-making powers on economic matters by appointing himself to head a party commission overseeing reform. Beijing finally tightened controls in 2020 on debt in real estate, one of China’s biggest industries. That triggered a collapse in economic growth, which fell to 3% in 2022, the second-lowest in three decades.
In the eastern port of Tianjin, a warehouse holding chemicals exploded Aug. 12, 2015, killing at least 116 people.
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Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died at 68Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died. State media CCTV said he died Friday of a heart attack in Shanghai. He was 68. Li was China’s No.
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Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died at 68Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died.
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Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died at 68Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died.
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Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died at 68As the top economic official, Li promised to improve conditions for entrepreneurs who generate jobs and wealth.
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