{"id":53311,"date":"2023-03-11T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/11\/li-qiang-xi-jinping-chinas-president-nominates-next-premier"},"modified":"2023-03-11T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:39:06","slug":"li-qiang-xi-jinping-chinas-president-names-next-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53311","title":{"rendered":"Li Qiang: Xi Jinping, China\u2019s president, names next premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nomination at annual meeting of National People\u2019s Congress confirms replacement of Li Keqiang<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has nominated Li Qiang, 63, to become premier during the continuing annual meeting of China\u2019s rubber-stamp parliament, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Li Qiang will replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/11\/a-defeated-person-sidelined-by-xi-chinas-li-keqiang-bows-out-as-premier\">Li Keqiang, who became premier in 2013<\/a> amid high hopes he would usher in liberal reforms. But his power was curbed by Xi, who increasingly sidelined Li Keqiang and placed allies in key strategic positions over him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/11\/li-qiang-xi-jinping-chinas-president-nominates-next-premier\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomination at annual meeting of National People\u2019s Congress confirms replacement of Li KeqiangXi Jinping has nominated Li Qiang, 63, to become premier during the continuing annual meeting of China\u2019s rubber-stamp parliament, the official Xinhua news agen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,892,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-li-keqiang","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53321,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53311\/revisions\/53321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}