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Former Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang passed away

Oct 27, 2023

Beijing [China], October 27: Chinese state media has just reported that former Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang passed away after a heart attack.
On the morning of October 27, Xinhua news agency reported that former Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang passed away on the same day in Shanghai city, at the age of 68.
"Mr. Li Keqiang, a member of the 17th, 18th and 19th Politburo Standing Committees of the Communist Party of China central committees and former prime minister, passed away on Friday in Shanghai," the news said. write.
Mr. Li Keqiang recently rested in Shanghai. On October 26, the former Chinese Prime Minister had a sudden heart attack and died at 0:10 on October 27. All remedial measures were unsuccessful.
Xinhua said the obituary would be distributed later.
Mr. Li Keqiang is an economist, graduated from Peking University. He was First Secretary of the Communist Youth League of China from 1993-1998. After that, he took on local work when he became Secretary of the Party Committee of Henan province and then Liaoning. In 2008, he became First Deputy Prime Minister and then served as Prime Minister of China from 2013-2023.
During a decade as prime minister, Mr. Lee steered the world's second-largest economy through a difficult period of rising government debt, trade tensions with the US and the Covid-19 pandemic, according to South China newspaper . Morning Post.
Mr. Li gave his final government work report as leader at the opening ceremony of the annual parliamentary session in Beijing in March this year, marking the end of two five-year terms of office. he - the maximum allowed by the Chinese constitution for the position of prime minister.
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper