Li Peng

October 20, 1928 – July 22, 2019

Li Peng (1928–2019) was a Chinese politician who served as Premier of China from 1987 to 1998 and as chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1998 to 2003. For much of the 1990s he ranked second in the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy behind General Secretary Jiang Zemin, retaining his Politburo Standing Committee seat until his retirement in 2002.

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