Former Premier Li Keqiang, China's top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack in Shanghai, state media CCTV reported. He was 68.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers his state of the nation address during the opening session of China’s National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2023. Chinese state media say former Premier …Li was China’s No. 2 leader from 2013-23 and an advocate for private business but was left with little authority after President Xi Jinping made himself the most powerful Chinese leader in decades and tightened control over the economy and society.
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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China’s former premier Li Keqiang dies at 68Li died of a heart attack on Friday in Shanghai, according to state media. He served as premier under Chinese leader Xi Jinping from 2013 until March of this year.
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