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Mr. Li, 63, spent his entire career until last autumn working his way up through a series of municipal and provincial administrations on China’s prosperous eastern seaboard, along the way cultivating his relationship with Mr. Xi. He began his career in an irrigation station, then a tool factory in Rui’an, a county on the outskirts of Wenzhou, one of the most entrepreneurial cities in China. He worked his way up to the post of Communist Party leader of Wenzhou, a position he held for three years until 2004.

2023 March 13, Keith Bradsher, Chang Che, Chris Buckley, Amy Chang Chien, John Liu, Li You, “China’s New Premier Needs to Revive Growth. How Far Will Loyalty Get Him?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2023, Xi's Third Term