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 2013-2023 and an advocate for private ...

As premier, Li Keqiang was "nominally China's No. 2 leader" and was in charge of the economy until late last year. He was "once seen as a reform-minded contender to the country’s top leadership ...

Authorities appeared to be taking a relatively light approach to the public outpouring of grief at Li's passing, possibly to avoid sparking a larger incident. Li, who was premier from March 2013 ...

BEIJING--The remains of former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang are to be cremated on Thursday, with flags around the country to be flown at half-staff to mourn the official who helped guide the world ...

You may not have heard the name Li Keqiang before — but you likely soon will. That's because when the Chinese premier steps down from power in March 2023, a decision he confirmed in March ...

Former premier Li Keqiang set off a nationwide debate on poverty alleviation after complaining at the 2020 briefing that two-fifths of China’s population’s earned “not even enough to rent a ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, right, bows after delivering his state of the nation address ...

Former premier Li Keqiang also mentioned foreign interference in his remarks at the NPC session in 2022, but the topic did not appear in any other government work report in the past decade.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang lead seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, the team that that effectively rules China. Members of the PSC were announced in November 2012 ...

(Yicai) Jan. 13 -- The New York Times recently ran a story questioning President Xi’s statement that China’s GDP grew by close to 5 percent last year. The Times pointed to analysis by the Rhodium ...

Paul Krugman says all economic data is best viewed as a peculiarly boring genre of science fiction, but Chinese data is even more fictional than most. The Nobel ...