Throughout the upheavals of China's three-year battle against COVID-19, Li was practically invisible. Li, who hailed from humble backgrounds, had been seen as Hu’s preferred successor as president.

Li was among the first students to win a place at the prestigious Peking University after China restored university entrance exams in the late 1970s, following the Cultural Revolution, a decade ...

Li rose from relatively humble roots to attend prestigious Peking University following the end of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution and rose steadily up the ranks, holding several high provincial ...

Li rose from relatively humble roots to attend prestigious Peking University following the end of the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution and rose steadily up the ranks, holding several high provincial ...

Li Keqiang was sent to the countryside by his family to work as a labourer during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976. He studied law at Peking University, where classmates say he ...

Former Peking University schoolmate Guoguang Wu, now a senior research scholar at Stanford, told AFP he didn't believe Li "has left a political legacy". "History will soon forget him," he said.

Tao Jingzhou, an international arbitrator and a classmate of Li’s at Peking University, said he was astonished to hear of his sudden death.

As China’s first premier with a bachelor’s degree in law and also a PhD in economics, both from the prestigious Peking University, Li took on the mission to correct the economic imbalance ...

Li Keqiang, who was China’s second-in-command and top economic official until March and was once a rival to Xi Jinping for the country’s presidency, died Oct. 27 in Shanghai. He was 68.

Former Premier Li Keqiang of China died at the age of 68 from a heart attack. Li, who served for a decade, was once seen as a potential leader of the Communist Party. However, he was overshadowed ...

BEIJING (AP) — 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 2013-23 and an advocate for ...