The ascension of the former Shanghai party chief had previously seemed in doubt ... address the country’s collapsing property market and reassure consumers and investors at home and aboard. But his ... ( read original story ...)
Li Qiang, Xi confidant, takes reins as China’s premier
Four years before Li Qiang gained notoriety as the force behind the two-month COVID-19 lockdown of Shanghai, the man who became China's new premier on Saturday worked quietly behind the scenes to ... ( read original story ...)
Man behind Shanghai’s brutal COVID-zero laws becomes China’s second in charge
Li Qiang has become China’s next premier nominally in charge of the world’s second-largest economy now facing some of its worst prospects in years. ( read original story ...)
Li Qiang, Xi Jinping’s top confidant, takes reins as China’s premier
Four years before Li Qiang gained notoriety as the force behind the two-month Covid-19 lockdown of Shanghai, the man who became China's premier on Saturday worked quietly behind the scenes to drive a ... ( read original story ...)
Xi Jinping bets on competence of Li Qiang as China new Premier
In late 2018, Mr Xi himself announced Shanghai's new tech-focused STAR Market as well as the pilot of a registration-based IPO system, reforms meant to entice China's hottest young firms to list ... ( read original story ...)
GLOBALink | Woman crane operator in China’s Shanghai sees no career ceiling
A 35-year-old woman who works as a tower crane operator in east China's megacity Shanghai says there's no ceiling but only a blue sky above her head, showing better gender equality in her career. Li ... ( read original story ...)
‘Xi Jinping’s guy’: China’s new premier Li Qiang, loyalist who oversaw Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown
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 ... ( read original story ...)