China’s Premier Li Keqiang dropped in leadership shuffle

Delegates attend the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China’s ruling Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (Andy Wong/AP)

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, the nation’s number two official and a chief proponent of economic reforms, is among four of the seven members of the nation’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee who will not be reappointed in a leadership shuffle on Sunday.

The four were not on the list of the ruling Communist Party’s new 205-member Central Committee that was approved on Saturday at the closing session of a week-long party congress that set the leadership and agenda for the next five years.