As Xi asserts his influence over the country’s top leadership, Li Qiang, one of Xi Jinping’s most trusted allies, was confirmed as premier on Saturday.
At a meeting of the country’s rubber-stamp parliament, Li, the former Shanghai party chief who oversaw the city’s arduous lockdown for two months last spring, was named premier Li Keqiang’s successor. The 63-year-old got virtually all votes from the in excess of 2,900 representatives at the Public Nation’s Congress daily after Xi was collectively chosen by delegates for a standard breaking third term as president.
On Saturday morning, the chamber heard Xi’s motion to name Li Qiang premier.
Li’s climb felt quite wary after his treatment of the Shanghai lockdown, in which occupants battled to get to food and clinical consideration.
However, as Xi consolidates his hold on Chinese politics, Li’s track record and the widespread protests that took place last winter against Xi’s zero-COVID policy have been ignored.