{"id":7828,"date":"2023-10-27T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T17:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2023-10-27T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T18:16:08","slug":"chinas-former-premier-li-keqiang-passes-away-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/chinas-former-premier-li-keqiang-passes-away-at-68\/7828\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s former premier Li Keqiang passes away at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who was once regarded as a reform-minded contender to the country\u2019s top leadership role, died of a sudden heart attack during the early hours on Friday in Shanghai, as reported by state media.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old was nominally China\u2019s No. 2 leader until late last year, served as the country\u2019s premier \u2013 traditionally in charge of the economy \u2013 from 2013 to March 2023 under strong leadership of Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in the role, Li navigated the world\u2019s second largest economy through the challenging period of rising technology and trade tensions with the United States, mounting government debt and unemployment, and the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who was once regarded as a reform-minded contender to the country\u2019s top leadership role, died\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":7890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[2107],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-li-keqiang"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}