China's former Premier Li Keqiang dies at 68

CCTV reports he suffered a heart attack just months after retirement

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Then-Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2017.  © Reuters

PAK YIU and CK TAN, Nikkei staff writers

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI -- China's former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack in the early hours of Friday, according to state media. He was 68.

Li suffered heart failure on Thursday evening while vacationing in Shanghai and passed away just after midnight, CCTV reported. He had served as premier for a decade, from 2013 until his retirement this year.

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