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Li Peng (lē pŭng), 1928–, Chinese Communist leader, premier of China (1988–98), b. Chengdu, Sichuan prov., China. Orphaned at age three when his father was executed by the Kuomintang Kuomintang [Chin.,=national people's party] (KMT), Chinese and Taiwanese political party. Sung Chiao-jen organized the party in 1912, under the nominal leadership of Sun Yat-sen, to succeed the Revolutionary Alliance.
..... Click the link for more information. , Li became the adopted son of Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai or Chou En-lai , 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader. A member of a noted Mandarin family, he was educated in China at an American-supported school and a university in Japan.
..... Click the link for more information. . Educated at the Moscow Power Institute, he became deputy minister (1979) and then minister (1981) of the power industry. After becoming (1982) a member of the Communist Party Central Committee, he rose to the Politburo and the Party Secretariat in 1985, and the standing committee of the Politburo in 1987, when he also became acting premier. He became premier (1988), declared martial law during the Tiananmen Square Tiananmen Square, large public square in Beijing, China, on the southern edge of the Inner or Tatar City. The square, named for its Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tiananmen), contains the monument to the heroes of the revolution, the Great Hall of the People, the museum of
..... Click the link for more information. protests (May, 1989), and was instrumental in the dismissal and arrest (June, 1989) of Zhao Ziyang Zhao Ziyang or Chao Tzu-yang , 1919–2005, Chinese Communist leader. Active as a local party leader during World War II, by the 1960s he was party secretary of Guangdong prov.
..... Click the link for more information. , the general secretary of the party. More politically orthodox than some of his contemporaries, he favored greater central economic planning and slower economic growth. He was chairman of the National People's Congress (speaker of the legislature) from 1998 to 2003.

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The book recounts his opposition to hardliners such as then premier Li Peng, and his failed efforts to persuade leader Deng Xiaoping not to use force to quell the protests.

Former China official says he helped Zhao on memoir by AFP / AFP Asian Edition

24, 1997 by a delegation under then Chinese PM Li Peng.

KAZAKHSTAN - UzenMunaiGaz by APS Review Gas Market Trends

However, five other former top party leaders, including Premier Zhu Rongji, parliamentary leader Li Peng and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman Li Ruihuan, have been excluded from the national lawmaking body, the Beijing-backed Wen Wei Po said.

Jiang Zemin stays on as deputy to China's lawmaking body by Asian Economic News