New | Daughter of retired premier Li Peng warns major power company staff to stay out of trouble

Li Xiaolin, the daughter of China’s retired premier Li Peng, has warned staff at the major power company she runs to stay out of trouble amid the widening anti-corruption campaign sweeping the country’s energy sector.

“You need to look at the bigger picture and to stay out of trouble – and to understand history,” Li, chairwoman of the energy company, China Power International Development (CPID), told employees during this month’s half-year conference, the official website of the CPID-controlled China Power Investment Corp reported.

The report provided no further context or explanation about her comments, but Li also stressed the challenges the power company will face in the second half of this year.

Li said party discipline and safety at work were both very important to the company.

Her father, Li Peng, spent much of his career focused on the mainland’s energy industry; he was premier in 1992 when he masterminded the approval for building the huge Three Gorges Dam project in Hubei province.

She is not the only one of Li Peng’s two children to become key players in the energy industry; her elder brother, Li Xiaopeng, was the chairman of Huaneng Power International before serving as the governor of coal-rich Shanxi province.