Li Keqiang

Li Keqiang

Li Keqiang ( IPA : [li kʰɤʨʰiaŋ]; Chinese  李克强 , Pinyin Lǐ Kèqiáng ; * July 1, 1955 , Dingyuan County , Anhui , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese politician and has been Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China since March 2013 . In October 2007 he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and in March 2008 he became Vice Prime Minister and a member of the State Council . On November 14, 2012, Li Keqiang was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at the 18th Party Congress .

Life

Li was born the son of farmers and was forced to do physical labor in Fengyang County, Anhui , during the Cultural Revolution . From 1978 he studied economics and law at Peking University and graduated in 1982 with a doctorate in economics. Li joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) back in 1976 and held positions in the party's youth organization while he was a student. Upon graduation, Li was appointed to the Central Committee for Education in 1982 and served in the party's Communist Youth League; During the Tian'anmen massacre in 1989, Li was already a senior official in the Youth League, which classified the protests as "patriotic". Since the late 1980s he made contacts with the former President Hu Jintao and was the first secretary of the Communist Youth League from 1993 to 1998 , which has approximately 70 million members.

In 1997 he was a member of the Chinese government delegation at the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic. Li has been a member of the Central Committee since 1997 and became governor of Henan Province in 1999 . At the age of 43, he was the youngest governor in China.

As governor of Henan, he tried to cover up an AIDS scandal. Its authorities harassed victims and civil rights activists.

In December 2004, he became the party secretary in Liaoning . The goals of his policy included better links between the provincial ports, including Dalian and Dandong , as well as attracting foreign investors, especially from neighboring countries South Korea and Japan . He used the money from foreign investments to improve the large state-owned companies in Liaoning Province, which specializes in industry.

At the 2007 CCP's 17th National Congress, Li was appointed to the Politburo Standing Committee . He then resigned as Liaoning Party Secretary.

Alongside Secretary General Xi Jinping , Li is considered to be one of the most influential politicians in the post-Hu Jintao era, he is seen as a member of the fifth generation of leaders in the People's Republic of China . In contrast to Xi, who was more likely to belong to the Jiang Zemin camp in Shanghai , Li was considered to be under the protection of Hu.

On March 15, 2013, he was elected Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China by the National People's Congress , replacing Wen Jiabao as head of government. On March 18, 2018, he was confirmed for a second five-year term.

Web links

Commons : Li Keqiang  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• tabular curriculum vitae (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ China's communists herald a change of power . NZZ.ch, November 14, 2012
2. ^ Daily Telegraph , October 12, 2007, Richard Spencer: Tiananmen generation could rule China
3. ↑ ^{a b} Peter S. Wang, May 28, 2007: Li Keqiang: A Rising Star and Aide to China's President Hu Jintao ( Memento of October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
4. ↑ Jutta Lietsch: The children of the old functionaries , in Die Rheinpfalz of October 13, 2007, background
5. ↑ China investigates the blood scandal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 14, 2004
6. ↑ Change of power in China: People's Congress elects Li as Prime Minister ( memento of March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, March 15, 2013 (accessed on March 15, 2013).
7. ↑ China's head of government: Li is allowed to rule for another five years . In: tagesschau.de, March 18, 2018 (accessed March 18, 2018).

predecessor	Office	successor
Wen Jiabao	Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China 2013–	-

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Li is the family name here, Keqiang is the first name.