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China's former Premier Li Keqiang dies at 68

 

China's former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack in the early hours of Friday, according to state media. He was 68.

Li suffered heart failure in Shanghai on Thursday evening and passed away just after midnight, CCTV reported.

He had served as premier for a decade, from 2013 until his retirement this year. As a trained economist and the No. 2 official in the Chinese Communist Party, Li helped steer the world's second-largest economy over that span, alongside President Xi Jinping. Li was born in July 1955 in the eastern province of Anhui. He was the son of a local official.

A year ago, in October 2022, he stepped down from the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee. He took his final bow as premier in March.

 

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