The 68-year-old died on Friday from a heart attack.
Residents walk by flowers laid outside a residential building where the late Chinese Premier Li Keqiang spent his childhood
People came overnight to his former residence at Hongxing Road No. 80 with bouquets of chrysanthemums and other flowers. Some bowed in respect while others cried. Mr Li, 68, was China’s top economic official for a decade, helping navigate the world’s second-largest economy through challenges such as rising political, economic and military tensions with the US and the Covid-19 pandemic.He was an English-speaking economist and had come from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal western ideas.
However, the need to balance party factions prompted the leadership to choose Xi Jinping, the son of a former vice premier and party elder, as the consensus candidate.
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