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Li Qiang (Chinese: 李 强; pinyin: Lǐ Qiáng; born 23 July 1959) is a Chinese politician. He became the premier of China in March 2023, having been elevated to the second-ranking member on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee Politburo Standing Committee in October 2022.
Mar 11, 2023 · Li Qiang, a longtime ally of China’s top leader and the man who oversaw last year’s bruising two-month Covid lockdown of Shanghai, was formally appointed the country’s premier on Saturday. He...
Mar 13, 2023 · China has a new premier — Li Qiang, widely regarded as one of Xi Jinping's closest allies. We take a close look at Li's career and his government's priorities in the coming decade.
Mar 11, 2023 · BEIJING, March 11 (Reuters) - Li Qiang, the former Communist Party chief of Shanghai, took office on Saturday as China's premier, the country's No.2 post, putting the close ally of...
Mar 11, 2023 · Li Qiang, the former Communist Party leader of the country's biggest city of Shanghai, will now lead the government, replacing retiring Li Keqiang. The 63-year-old received...
Oct 27, 2023 · 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, state media reported. He...
Apr 17, 2024 · In Shanghai, where Li served as Chinese Communist Party secretary from 2017 until 2022, brutal COVID-19 lockdown measures left millions traumatized, shredding his hard-earned reputation as ...
Mar 11, 2023 · China’s rubber-stamp legislature has appointed Li Qiang, a long-time aide of leader Xi Jinping, as premier, the man tasked with reviving the world’s second-largest economy after three years of...
Mar 11, 2023 · BEIJING, March 11 (Reuters) - Four years before Li Qiang gained notoriety as the force behind the two-month COVID-19 lockdown of Shanghai, the man who became China's premier on Saturday worked...
Oct 28, 2023 · Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 of a heart attack in Shanghai, state media CCTV reported. He was 68. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) A traffic policeman patrols the street near Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023.
Mar 11, 2023 · China has named Li Qiang, a close confidant of top leader Xi Jinping, as the country’s next premier nominally in charge of the world's second-largest economy.
1 day ago · Chinese Premier Li Qiang has warned against a “vicious cycle” of economic decoupling from the West, as Beijing struggles to contain rising global pushback over soaring electric vehicle (EV ...
The Li Qiang Government, officially the 14th State Council of the People's Republic of China, is the Central People's Government of China from 2023. Premier Li Qiang took office on 11 March 2023 and it succeeded the Li Keqiang Government.
Mar 11, 2023 · Li Qiang, the former Communist Party leader of the country's biggest city of Shanghai, will now lead the government, replacing retiring Li Keqiang. The 63-year-old received...
Oct 27, 2023 · BEIJING (AP) — Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68.
Oct 26, 2023 · 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, Xi...
Oct 24, 2022 · Li Qiang, the Communist Party chief of Shanghai, is set to become China's next premier after president Xi Jinping unveiled a new governing body packed with loyalists.
Oct 27, 2023 · Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang has died of a heart attack aged 68. State media said he died at 10 minutes past midnight on Friday despite "all-out" efforts to revive him. Li was...
Jun 13, 2024 · Li Keqiang (born July 1, 1955, Hefei, Anhui province, China—died October 27, 2023, Shanghai, China) was a Chinese politician and government official who served as premier of China from 2013 to 2023. Li grew up in Anhui province in east-central China, where his father was a local official.
Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, dies at 68. The former premier was China’s No. 2 leader and an advocate for private business but was sidelined as President Xi Jinping made...
1 day ago · June 25, 2024 at 2:04 AM PDT. Listen. 2:53. Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned of negative consequences for the world if nations part ways economically, while also countering criticism that his ...
Jun 17, 2024 · Chinese Premier Li Qiang says he has agreed with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to properly manage their nations’ differences as they emerge from a hostile era in which minister-to-minister contacts were banned and trade barriers cost Australian exporters up to $13 billion a year.
Oct 27, 2023 · Chinese former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack on Friday, barely seven months after retiring from a decade in office during which his reformist star had dimmed. He was 68.
Nov 1, 2023 · The sudden death of China’s former Premier Li Keqiang has spurred an outpouring of grief and mourning across the country. But for many, it also appears to offer a rare opening to air...
Jun 18, 2024 · Premier Li Qiang waves from his plane before departure. ( ABC News: Keane Bourke ) Boosting the state's economy, and therefore the nation's, is the name of the game for Cook.
