{"id":"li-peng","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-peng","language":"en","name":"Li Peng","name_en":"Li Peng","name_ne":null,"description":"4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (1928–2019)","headline":"4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (1928–2019)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Li Peng was a Chinese politician who served as the premier of China from 1987 to 1998, and as the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003. For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hierarchy behind then CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin. He retained his seat on the CCP Politburo Standing Committee until his retirement in 2002.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"20 October 1928","date":"1928-10-20"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Shanghai","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8686"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"22 July 2019","date":"2019-07-22"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Beijing","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Republic of China","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13426199","end":"1949"},{"text":"People's Republic of China","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148","start":"1949"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Chinese Communist Party (1945–2019)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17427","start":"1945-11","end":"2019-07-22"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Moscow Power Engineering Institute","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q224802","end":"1954"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Zhu Lin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11094424","start":"1958-07-10","end":"2019-07-22"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (16 March 1998 – 15 March 2003)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3408540","start":"1998-03-16","end":"2003-03-15"},{"text":"Premier of the People's Republic of China (12 April 1988 – 17 March 1998)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4122271","start":"1988-04-12","end":"1998-03-17"},{"text":"member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1 November 1987 – 15 November 2002)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42327067","start":"1987-11-01","end":"2002-11-15"},{"text":"member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (24 October 1985 – 15 November 2002)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20046316","start":"1985-10-24","end":"2002-11-15"},{"text":"Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (6 June 1983 – 24 November 1987)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508368","start":"1983-06-06","end":"1987-11-24"},{"text":"National People's Congress deputy","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10891456"},{"text":"Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56816035"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru‎","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25755314"},{"text":"Pushkin Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1244633","date":"2007"},{"text":"Nishan-e-Pakistan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1820710"},{"text":"Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63436645"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Peng","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Li Peng born?","a":"Li Peng was born on 20 October 1928 in Shanghai."},{"q":"What positions has Li Peng held?","a":"Positions held by Li Peng include: Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (1998–2003); Premier of the People's Republic of China (1988–1998); member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1987–2002); member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (1985–2002); Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (1983–1987)."},{"q":"Where did Li Peng study?","a":"Li Peng was educated at Moscow Power Engineering Institute."}],"related":[{"name":"Liu Shaoqi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/liu-shaoqi"},{"name":"Zhou Enlai","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/zhou-enlai"},{"name":"Li Keqiang","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-keqiang"},{"name":"Wen Jiabao","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/wen-jiabao"},{"name":"Zhu Rongji","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/zhu-rongji"},{"name":"Li Qiang","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-qiang"},{"name":"Mao Zedong","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mao-zedong"},{"name":"Xi Jinping","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/xi-jinping"},{"name":"Jiang Zemin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jiang-zemin"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/li-peng-873f105ebc.jpg","width":307,"height":370,"license":"CC BY-SA 2.0","credit":"World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland. cropped by Shizhao","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lipeng.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Li Peng","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Peng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q18301","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18301","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Lipeng.jpg by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland. cropped by Shizhao (CC BY-SA 2.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lipeng.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Li Peng, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Lipeng.jpg — World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland. cropped by Shizhao, CC BY-SA 2.0.","cite":"\"Li Peng\". DigiNepal. Last updated 7 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/li-peng. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-07T11:48:10Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-peng","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-peng","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-peng?lang=ne"}}