Combination of nine pictures of then-Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during the press conference after the closing ceremony of the annual session of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on March 15, 2015. Photo: Fred Dufour/AFP.
Viewed as an open-minded pragmatic, Li steered China’s economy through a global financial crisis before being side-lined and stepping down in March.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) welcomes China’s Vice-Premier Li Keqiang to ‘The Lodge’, the prime minister’s official residence, in Canberra on October 30, 2009. Photo: Tim Wimborne/AFP/Pool.The Vice-Premier of the State Council, Mr Li Keqiang, tours a demonstration kitchen in the Vocational Training Council (VTC)’s Chinese Cuisine Training Institute in 2011 in Hong Kong. Photo: GovHK.Vice-Premier of the State Council, Mr Li Keqiang attends a commencement ceremony of the construction of Second West-East Natural Gas Pipeline in Hong Kong in 2009 Photo: GovHK.China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) shares a light moment with Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Donald Tsang (L) during a welcoming dinner at a hotel in Hong Kong on August 17, 2011. Photo: Vincent Yu/AFP/Pool.Newly-elected Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) bows after he was also elected as Chairman of the Central Military Commission, with Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) clapping hands during the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 14, 2013. Photo: Goh Chai Hin/AFP.Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C) arrives in Longmen township, an area very close to the epicentre of a shallow earthquake at magnitude 7.0 that hit the city of Ya’an, southwest China’s Sichuan province on April 20, 2013. Photo: Stringer/AFP.Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (L) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, west of London, on June 17, 2014 on the first full day of a three day visit to Britain. Photo: Steve Parsons/AFP.Then-premier Li Keqiang with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2016. File photo: Kremlin via CC2.0.aChina’s Premier Li Keqiang (L) is welcomed to Government House by a Maori elder during a welcome ceremony in Wellington, New Zealand, on March 27, 2017. Photo: Marty Melville/AFP. Carrie Lam (L) and Li Keqiang (R). Photo: GovHK.Carrie Lam and Li Keqiang. Photo: GovHK.Then-premier Li Keqiang with then-UK leader David Cameron in 2014. File photo: Sergeant Paul Shaw LBIPP (Army) via CC2.0.aThe Chief Executive, Mr John Lee (left), briefs Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing in 2022 on the latest economic, social and political situation in Hong Kong. Photo: GovHK.
