Li was once seen as a potential top leader, but the trained economist was shunted aside in a leadership shakeup last year and replaced with Xi loyalist Li Qiang. Even before then, Xi had ...

Hammering home the central government’s hope that tech breakthroughs will become a driving force for the Chinese economy and help pave a path of self-reliance, Premier Li Qiang has called on ...

Since the official GDP announcement in January, there has been growing skepticism of Beijing's reports of a robust expansion.

BEIJING--New Chinese Premier Li Qiang sought to reassure the country ... the former Communist Party secretary of Shanghai and close ally of President Xi Jinping also said China will take measures ...

A spokesperson for pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca declined to comment on whether the CEO was attending and meeting Xi. BMW's China ... Chinese Premier Li Qiang is not likely to meet with foreign ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping reads during a speech by Premier Li Qiang at the opening session of the National Peoples Congress, or NPC, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5 ...

The leaders who attended the meetings were Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi, all members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party ...

China has vowed to keep its urban jobless rate around 5.5 per cent this year while striving to prevent those at the lowest economic rung of society from falling back into poverty, in an effort to ...