'Xi Jinping's guy': China's new premier Li Qiang, loyalist who oversaw Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown

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BEIJING: When Li Qiang followed President Xi Jinping into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last October, as his number two on the seven-man Politburo Standing Committee, it became clear that he was the top choice to be China's new premier. A close ally of the president, Li oversaw Sha

BEIJING: When Li Qiang followed President Xi Jinping into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last October, as his number two on the seven-man Politburo Standing Committee, it became clear that he was the top choice to be China's new premier.

China's President Xi Jinping walks with members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, including Li Qiang , as they meet the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct 23, 2022. In 2015, Li accompanied Xi on a visit to the United States to meet then-president Barack Obama. In Seattle with Xi, Li gave a speech calling for more cooperation between Zhejiang and US firms.

Making his rounds, he reiterated the party's line:"We must resolutely implement the spirit of the important instructions by Party Secretary Xi Jinping and steadfastly persist in the dynamic-zero approach." Xi expended significant political capital to get him into the role, given the Shanghai lockdown and Li's lack of central government experience, McArver said."He clearly thinks that Li Qiang is a very competent person and he has put him in this position because he trusts him and he expects a lot of him."PRO-BUSINESS STANCE

"He attended to our case and cleared the unnecessary regulatory obstacles for us, even though we were just a small private company," said the business owner, declining to be named given the sensitivity of discussing politics in China.

 

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