Li Keqiang gives straight talk to NPC delegates
In the past 26 years, China has seen four premiers, each with markedly different styles. Li Peng was viewed as dull and stuttering, and Zhu Rongji as stern-faced but charismatic. Wen Jiabao liked to insert poems into his emotional speeches.
In the past 26 years, China has seen four premiers, each with markedly different styles. Li Peng was viewed as dull and stuttering, and Zhu Rongji as stern-faced but charismatic. Wen Jiabao liked to insert poems into his emotional speeches.
As for Li Keqiang, many would regard his style as down-to-earth.
As Premier Li read out his 32-page Government Work Report yesterday morning in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China is facing a new challenge that barely troubled his predecessors - terrorist attacks.
The bloody incident on Saturday in Kunming prompted Li to add a new section to the report that was not included earlier in copies handed out to members of the audience, a highly unusual move.
"We express strong condemnation of the violent terrorist incident which occurred in Yunnan Kunming railway station on March 1, deep condolences to the unfortunate victims and the families of the victims and injured people," Li said to loud applause.
"We must resolutely combat all terrorist crimes that blaspheme the dignity of state laws and challenge the core of human civilisation, and protect the safety and property of the people."