Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang (Chinese李克强, Pinyin lǐ Keqiang; born July 1, 1955 Ding Yuan county, Anhui, People's Republic of China) is a Chinese politician. Since March 2013 he has served as Prime Minister of his country. 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, Deputy Prime Minister and Member of the State Council. On November 14, 2012 Li Keqiang was elected at the 18th Congress of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Life
Li was born as a son of farmers and had physical labor in Fengyang county ( Anhui ) perform during the Cultural Revolution. From 1978 he studied at Peking University Economics and Law and graduated in 1982 with a Ph.D. in Economics from. Li went Already in 1976, in the Communist Party and held while a student offices in the youth organization of the party. After graduating Li was appointed in 1982 to the Central Committee of Education and took positions in the Communist Youth League of the party; during the massacre on Tiananmen Square in 1989, Li was already a high-ranking official of the Youth League, which classified the protests as " patriotic ". Since the late 1980s, he made contact with former President Hu Jintao and was for the period 1993-1998 first secretary of the Communist Youth League, which belong to about 70 million members.
In 1997, he was present as a member of the Chinese government delegation to the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic. Since 1997, Li is a member of the Central Committee and in 1999 governor of Henan Province. At 43 he was the youngest governor in China.
As governor of Henan, he tried to cover up an AIDS scandal. His authorities harassed victims and civil rights.
In December 2004 he took the post of party secretary in Liaoning. Goals of his policy included the better link the ports of the province, including Dalian and Dandong, and advertising of foreign investors, especially from neighboring countries, South Korea and Japan. He used the money accrued from foreign investments for the improvement of the large state-owned enterprises, which specializes in industrial province of Liaoning.
At the 17th National Congress of the CPC in 2007, Li was appointed to the Standing Committee of the Politburo. He then resigned his position as party secretary of Liaoning.
In addition to Secretary Xi Jinping, Li is one of the most influential politicians in the era after Hu Jintao, he is regarded as a member of the fifth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China. In contrast to Xi, which is rather attributed to the Shanghai stock Jiang Zemin, Li is considered as standing under the protection of Hus.
On March 15, 2013, he was elected by the National People's Congress Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China, sparking Wen Jiabao as head of government from.