Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang has died at 68, state media has reported.
He was the second most powerful man in the ruling Chinese Communist Party until he retired last year.
State media said he had been “resting” in Shanghai when he suffered a sudden heart attack on Thursday.
He passed away ten minutes past midnight on Friday despite “all-out efforts” to revive him, state broadcaster CCTV said.
China had two orderly transitions of power according to their own rules. These were arguably the best years China had had in decades of not centuries. Now we have Xi and nobody knows just how bad things will get.