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 ...

Li Keqiang raises his hand to vote at the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China’s ruling Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 22, 2022.

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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 ...

Li Keqiang, who was China’s second-in-command and top economic official until March and was once a rival to Xi Jinping for the country’s presidency, died Oct. 27 in Shanghai. He was 68.

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 ...