Li Peng
Li Peng (; 20 October 1928 – 22 July 2019) 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 Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin. He retained his seat on the CCP Politburo Standing Committee until his retirement in 2002.Li was the son of an early Communist revolutionary, Li Shuoxun, who was executed by the Kuomintang. After meeting Zhou Enlai in Sichuan, Li was raised by Zhou and his wife, Deng Yingchao. Li trained to be an engineer in the Soviet Union and worked at an important national power company after returning to China. He escaped the political turmoil of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s due to his political connections and his employment in the company. After Deng Xiaoping became China's leader in the late 1970s, Li took a number of increasingly important and powerful political positions, eventually becoming premier in 1987.
As Premier, Li was the most visible representative of China's government who backed the use of force to quell the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. During the protests, Li used his authority as premier to declare martial law and, in cooperation with Deng, who was the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, declared military law and the suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen square protestors, ultimately resulting in a massacre.
Li advocated a largely conservative approach to Chinese economic reform, which placed him at odds with General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who fell out of favour in 1989. After Zhao was removed from office, Li promoted a conservative socialist economic agenda but lost influence to incoming vice premier Zhu Rongji, and was unable to prevent the increasing market liberalization of the Chinese economy. During his time in office, he helmed the controversial Three Gorges Dam project. He and his family managed a large Chinese power monopoly, which the Chinese government broke up after his term as premier expired. Li died at the age of 90 in Beijing. Provided by Wikipedia
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6by Peng Li, Han Zou, Libo Zhou, Shupo Ma, Jinhuan Zhu, Fei LiGet access
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7by Peng Li, Han Zou, Libo Zhou, Shupo Ma, Jinhuan Zhu, Fei LiGet access
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8by Jinhuan Zhu, Han Zou, Linlin Kong, Libo Zhou, Peng Li, Wei Cheng, Shuangshuang BianGet access
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9by Jinhuan Zhu, Han Zou, Linlin Kong, Libo Zhou, Peng Li, Wei Cheng, Shuangshuang BianGet access
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10by Guo-Yu Wang, Zhi-Jian Cheng, Pu-Wei Yuan, Hao-Peng Li, Xi-Jing HeGet access
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11by Chang, Ming-Long;Chang, Jung-Su;Cheah, Khoot-Peng;Li, Joe-Sharg;Cheng, Hui-Wen;Hu, Chien-Ming;Yu, Wen-YuGet access
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12by Li, Yi-Feng, Liu, Yu-Zhu, Chen, Yan-Wen, Chen, Ke, Batista, Frederico, Cardoso, João CR, Chen, Yu-Ru, Peng, Li-Hua, Zhang, Ya, Zhu, You-Ting, Liang, Xiao, Power, Deborah, Yang, Jin-LongGet access
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13by Wenping Zhang, Zhenxin Fan, Eunjung Han, Rong Hou, Liang Zhang, Marco Galaverni, Jie Huang, Hong Liu, Pedro Silva, Peng Li, John P Pollinger, Lianming Du, XiuyYue Zhang, Bisong Yue, Robert K Wayne, Zhihe ZhangGet access
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14by Zheng Kou, Yongdong Li, Zuohua Yin, Shan Guo, Mingli Wang, Xuebin Gao, Peng Li, Lijun Tang, Ping Jiang, Ze Luo, Zhi Xin, Changqing Ding, Yubang He, Zuyi Ren, Peng Cui, Hongfeng Zhao, Zhong Zhang, Shuang Tang, Baoping Yan, Fumin Lei, Tianxian LiGet access
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15by Zheng Kou, Yongdong Li, Zhaohua Yin, Shan Guo, Mingli Wang, Xuebin Gao, Peng Li, Li-Jun Tang, Ping Jiang, Ze Luo, Xin Zhi, Changqing Ding, Yong He, Ren Zu-yi, Peng Cui, Hongfeng Zhao, Zhong Zhang, Shuāng Táng, Binbin Yan, Fumin Lei, Tianxian LiGet access
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16by Zheng Kou, Yongdong Li, Zhaohua Yin, Shan Guo, Mingli Wang, Xuebin Gao, Peng Li, Li-Jun Tang, Ping Jiang, Ze Luo, Xin Zhi, Changqing Ding, Yong He, Ren Zu-yi, Peng Cui, Hongfeng Zhao, Zhong Zhang, Shuāng Táng, Binbin Yan, Fumin Lei, Tianxian LiGet access
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