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, former Chinese premier and onetime Xi rival, dies at 68 Mr. Li, who served as premier for a decade until March, was nominally in charge of China’s economy but was increasingly ...

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 ...