FORMER PREMIER DIES
Former Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang died of a sudden heart attack in Shanghai on October 27. He was 68.
Li was member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th and 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) central committees from October 2007 to October 2022, and served as premier of the State Council from March 2013 to March this year. He was vice premier of the State Council from March 2008 to March 2013.
A native of Dingyuan County, Anhui Province, Li was born in July 1955. He began his first job in 1974 and joined the CPC in May 1976.
Li was a graduate of Peking University’s Law Department where
