Chinese former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack on Friday, just 10 months after retiring from a decade in office during which his reformist star had dimmed
Once viewed as a top Communist Party leadership contender, Li Keqiang was sidelined in recent years by China President Xi Jinping, who tightened his grip on power and steered the world's second-largest economy in a more statist direction.
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(1st UPDATE) The elite economist supported a more open market economy, advocating supply-side reforms in an approach dubbed 'Likonomics' that was never fully implemented