Influential party elders also hand-picked promising technocrats for promotions; Shih says Li Keqiang was one of them. Li was born in Anhui province and came of age in the aftermath of the ...

Li Keqiang, China’s former premier, who came to power promising to improve the lot of private companies and restrain the reach of the state but was overshadowed by the hard-line top leader ...

Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has died of a heart attack. A respected development economist, he was overshadowed as premier by Xi Jinping. China's former Premier Li Keqiang has died of a heart ...

Hong Kong CNN — Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, once seen as a reform-minded contender to the country’s top leadership role, died of a sudden heart attack early Friday in Shanghai ...

BEIJING — Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68. Li was China’s No. 2 leader from 2013-23 and an advocate for ...

HEFEI, China — Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people gathered Thursday near a state funeral home in Beijing as China’s former second-ranking leader, Li Keqiang, was put to rest, while a ...

"Former Premier Li Keqiang played an important role in Sino-Japanese relations, including his official visit to our country during the trilateral summit between Japan, China and South Korea in May ...

The former premier inspired the unofficial “Li Keqiang Index”, created by The Economist to measure the nation’s economic growth using three indicators. Li preferred to use high-frequency ...