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...He reports to Li Qiang, China’s premier, the formal head of the CFC and the de facto top official responsible for China’s economy and financial affairs, according to official statements....
...Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday pre-empted the official release by the National Bureau for Statistics, announcing at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the economy had expanded an “estimated” 5.2 per cent...
...China’s premier Li Qiang on Tuesday pre-empted the official data release, announcing the headline GDP growth figure on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos....
...The organisers of the conference, held in the scenic Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, announced on Friday that China’s second-ranked official premier Li Qiang would preside over the event this year...
...But the EU leaders, who are scheduled to have lunch with Xi before meeting his number two Li Qiang, in the afternoon, are expected to deliver a blunt message to their Chinese counterparts about trade and...
...Additional reporting by Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...During his time in the city, he worked alongside China’s number-two leader, Premier Li Qiang, who was then Shanghai’s party secretary....
...Premier Li Qiang said last month that second-quarter performance would surpass the first quarter rate of 4.5 per cent....
...Scholars, experts and others have briefed officials including China’s premier Li Qiang, according to representation documents obtained by the Financial Times....
...Last week, China’s premier Li Qiang chaired a meeting of the state council, the country’s cabinet, focused on promoting stability in foreign trade....
...Meeting the target would still “not be an easy task”, new premier Li Qiang warned on Monday at the closing of China’s annual rubber-stamp parliament, as the country emerges from the economic malaise of the...
...Data visualisation by Andy Lin...
...The Chinese leader is expected to elevate Li Qiang, the former Shanghai party chief whom Xi worked with as governor of Zhejiang province in the 2000s, to premier and head of China’s State Council, or cabinet...
...Li is set to be replaced in a government reshuffle this week by Li Qiang, a close ally of President Xi Jinping....
...Shanghai’s former Chinese Communist chief Li Qiang, the official responsible for overseeing Shanghai’s lockdown, is set to be named China’s premier at the National People’s Congress, making him the number...
...Xi’s number two, Li Qiang, who used to hobnob with the likes of Ma and Tesla’s Elon Musk in his old job as Shanghai party boss, sounded a pro-business clarion call at the annual meeting of parliament in...
...Three other individuals — Liu Fan, Sun Qiang, and Matthew Ziburis — were accused in a separate case of targeting three pro-democracy activists, including a California-based visual artist, starting in January...
...“All I want is someone who can make kung pao chicken that attracts customers to come back,” said Zhang Lin, owner of a restaurant in Chengdu....
...Wu Qiang, a former politics lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said the local government in Wuhan did not have the power to act decisively because they were at the bottom of a chain of command that...
...Appointing Mr Luo is the “biggest policy adjustment the party centre can make, given they are unwilling to give into the Hong Kong people’s demands”, said Wu Qiang, an outspoken former politics lecturer...
...Among the artists he has collected are Richard Lin, Hong Kong’s Lee Kit, Haegue Yang from Korea and Cai Guo-Qiang, Xu Bing, Chen Zhen and Gu Wenda from China — “but everything is so expensive now,” he says...
...“From ‘fangirls’ to diba to Chinese students studying abroad, everyone who loves Hong Kong and China has recently united to support and safeguard the city,” said Gang Qiang, an anchor for China Central Television...
...Today it represents Chinese stars including Liu Xiaodong and Cai Guo-Qiang, as well as the leading Taiwanese contemporary painter Michael Lin....
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