Li Peng

✶October 20, 1928

†July 22, 2019

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About their life

Li Peng was a Chinese politician who served as the premier of China from 1987 to 1998, and as the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003. For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hierarchy behind then CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin. He retained his seat on the CCP Politburo Standing Committee until his retirement in 2002.

4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (1928–2019)

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Biography from the article Li Peng on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.