Li Keqiang, Vice Premier of China, has built his career over a political career that has come in much contact with the current president, Hu Jintao. The leader is ranked number seven in the Chinese hierarchy in the Politburo Standing Committee, the highest organ of power of China, composed of nine members, "and if the script is fulfilled, will become the first March 2013 Minister's second largest economy in the world, replacing Wen Jiabao.Then culminate in the rise of the fifth generation of Chinese leaders, led by general secretary of Chinese Communist Party (CPC) and president of the country is expected to be the current vice president Xi Jinping. Li, 55, is the youngest member of the Standing Committee in his capacity as deputy Wen Jiabao has responsibilities primarily in the economic field, among others, finance, energy, development, macroeconomic management, control prices and food security.
Born in Dingyuan (Anhui province) within a humble family. His father was a low-ranking local official. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), was sent to work in the field, Fengyang County (Anhui). There, he joined the CCP and was appointed party secretary of the commune. In 1978, he entered the prestigious Beijing University (Beida), where he studied law.
He was known for his discipline, and some classmates remember memorizing English vocabulary while queuing for lunch in the dining room. After graduating, he held senior positions in the Communist Youth League, where he was an acolyte of Hu Jintao and attended the Party school. When protests erupted in favor of democracy in Tiananmen in 1989, took part in meetings to reconcile positions with students.
But when martial law was declared, he put aside any sympathy you may have felt the movement. After obtaining a doctorate in economics from Peking University in 1998 was appointed deputy governor of the province of an, but served as acting governor, a post he officially assumed the following year.
In 2002 he was appointed provincial secretary of the CPC. In an, drove the development of which is one of the poorest and most populated regions of China, but also suppressed the underground Christian movement and witnessed the massive scandal of AIDS infections among farmers from selling blood.
In 2004, he moved to the northern province of Liaoning as party secretary until, in October 2007, he entered the Politburo Standing Committee for the XVII Congress of the CPC. For some time considered a possible successor to Hu Jintao, appears to have lost the political battle for the top leadership of the country for the benefit of Xi Jinping, despite maintaining a friendship of decades with the current president.
In return, is likely to be prime minister. The staff time worship leader and enforcement unit made leaders like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping are long gone, and now CPC decisions are collegial and a delicate balance of power. Li Keqiang is considered an ambitious man, frank and sharp tongue.
He has enthusiastically defended the concept of Hu to create a 'harmonious society' and the need to tilt toward an economic model based more on domestic consumption and less on exports and investment, in which the urbanization process is crucial. He has also spoken about the need to facilitate access to housing and affordable health care.
His first major international appearance was in Davos last year. His European tour, which began in Spain, high economic content is part of the long preparation and rise to power that traditionally follow the Chinese leadership.
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