Li Keqiang, former premier and China’s high financial official for a decade, dies at 68

BEIJING — Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s high financial official for a decade, died Friday of a coronary heart assault in Shanghai, state media CCTV reported. He was 68.

Li was China’s No. 2 chief in 2013-23 and an advocate for personal enterprise however was left with little authority after President Xi Jinping made himself probably the most highly effective Chinese chief in a long time and tightened management over the economic system and society.

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