{"id":294834,"date":"2023-10-27T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=294834"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:45:52","slug":"former-chinese-premier-li-keqiang-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/10\/27\/former-chinese-premier-li-keqiang-dies-at-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang dies at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>China\u2019s foreign ministry said it \u201cdeeply\u201d mourned Li\u2019s \u201ctragic passing<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat once tipped as the country\u2019s future leader only to be eclipsed by President Xi Jinping, died Friday. He was 68.<\/p>\n<p>He had a heart attack on Thursday and passed away in Shanghai just after midnight, state-run news agency Xinhua said.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry said it \u201cdeeply\u201d mourned Li\u2019s \u201ctragic passing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn obituary will be published soon,\u201d ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said.<\/p>\n<p>During his 10-year tenure as premier under Xi, Li cultivated an image as a more modern official compared to his stiffer colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>A career bureaucrat who spoke fluent English, he voiced support for economic reforms during his time in office.<\/p>\n<p>The son of a minor party official in eastern China\u2019s poor Anhui province, Li was sent to the countryside to work as a labourer during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to gain a law degree from Peking University, where classmates say he embraced Western liberal political theory.<\/p>\n<p>But he became more orthodox after joining the ranks of officialdom in the mid-1980s, working as a bureaucrat while his former classmates protested in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Li rose to become the ruling Communist Party\u2019s top official in Henan province, and in Liaoning in the northeast \u2014 both of which saw economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>But his reputation was damaged by his handling of an HIV\/AIDS epidemic stemming from a tainted blood donation programme while he was party boss in Henan.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed premier in 2013, his attempts at tackling China\u2019s deep economic challenges were curtailed by the overwhelming authority of Xi, with whom he was once seen as a rival for the country\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Praised for helping to steer the country through the global financial crisis relatively unscathed, his time in office saw a shift in power from the more consensus-based rule associated with former leaders to the more concentrated power of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/03\/03\/chinas-xi-to-secure-third-term-as-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople always debated whether (China\u2019s) institutions would\u2026 determine the outcomes, as opposed to just raw power,\u201d Victor Shih, an expert on China\u2019s elite politics at the University of California San Diego, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent events show that raw power still matters more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very unfortunate that he didn\u2019t have a protege to carry on his policies,\u201d City University of Hong Kong\u2019s Wang Jiangyu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Derailed agenda\u2019 \u2013<br \/>\nLi\u2019s tenure also saw China\u2019s economy begin to slow from the dizzying heights experienced in the 1990s and 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always struck me as very committed to China\u2019s development, intellectually curious, with a highly sophisticated understanding of the Chinese economy,\u201d Bert Hofman, director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvents derailed some of his agenda in the past 10 years, but his thinking is still very much relevant today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Peking University classmate Guoguang Wu, now a senior research scholar at Stanford, told AFP that Li \u201cwas someone with an ability for independent thought\u201d during their time together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfterwards, he became a government official, and this ability seemed to disappear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe he has left a political legacy. History will soon forget him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another former classmate was more charitable, saying Li\u2019s life and career were a testament to the success of the reform agenda he espoused during his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout reform and opening up\u2026 he and I still might have been farming in the countryside of Anhui,\u201d lawyer Tao Jingzhou told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>When Li left office, the country was experiencing some of its lowest growth in decades, battered by a Covid-induced slowdown and a crisis in the housing market.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Xi ally Li Qiang \u2014 a former Shanghai party boss \u2014 as his successor this year was seen as a sign that his reformist agenda had fallen by the wayside as Beijing tightened its grip over the economy.<\/p>\n<p>But in his final speech as outgoing premier, Li struck a bullish tone, saying China\u2019s economy was \u201cstaging a steady recovery and demonstrating vast potential and momentum for further growth\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry said it \u201cdeeply\u201d mourned Li\u2019s \u201ctragic passing Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat once tipped as the country\u2019s future leader only to be eclipsed by President Xi Jinping, died Friday. 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