A large number of police and plainclothes officers have appeared around Li Keqiang's former residence and Hongxing Road in Hefei, Anhui, monitoring passersby.
October 28 marks the third anniversary of Li Keqiang's death. A netizen submission reported that members of the public spontaneously gathered to mourn on Hongxing Road in Hefei, where his former residence is located.
Rumors online claim that Hu Chunhua will, as a Central Committee member, put forward a motion at the Fifth Plenum of the CCP Central Committee in October 2026, calling on the plenum to authorize the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the cause of Li Keqiang's death, and that this will be made a condition for his succession; the military is also rumored to support the investigation and to demand that Hu Chunhua be added as a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.
On July 3, marking the birthday of the late Li Keqiang, netizens resurfaced a 21-second video from the 2020 COVID-19 commendation conference, showing Li Keqiang issuing a low, dry cough after Xi Jinping misread a character.
Overseas leaks claim that Peng Liyuan used her assigned 6-person special security detail to get involved in the 2023 case of Li Keqiang's death, and CCP elders placed her under exit control for a full two years on the grounds of the Li Keqiang case.
Rumors online claim that from July 2025, Li Keqiang's wife Cheng Hong and their daughter issued an open letter demanding an investigation into the cause of Li Keqiang's death; from the end of 2025 they sought the intervention of party elders such as Wen Jiabao and Wang Yang; in January 2026 they reportedly said that if the investigation was not reopened they would go to the petition center to file a public petition, with Wang Yang, Liu Yuan and Hu Chunhua said to be on their side.
Detailed anonymous claims have emerged overseas alleging that Li Keqiang was killed while swimming at the Dongjiao State Guesthouse in Shanghai, directly pointing to the Ministry of Public Security and Wang Xiaohong.
In November 2024, the Minhang District Court in Shanghai sentenced Gu Wanming, former head of the Xinhua News Agency's Guangdong branch, to one year in prison on the charge of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. He was criminally detained after issuing an open letter in October 2023 raising five demands over the death of Li Keqiang.
On February 17, 2024, netizens reported that the house number plate at Li Keqiang's former residence at 80 Hongxing Road in Hengzei had been covered up.
On October 30, 2023, Gu Wanming, former head of the Guangdong branch of the Xinhua News Agency, issued an open letter in his capacity as a veteran Party member, making five demands regarding the death of Li Keqiang: suspending the cremation, setting up an investigation team, holding those responsible accountable, conducting an autopsy, and holding the funeral according to protocol. He was subsequently placed under criminal detention.
Former Premier Li Keqiang died suddenly at the Shanghai Dongjiao Guest House at the age of 68, sending shockwaves through the Zhongnanhai leadership and tearing away the veneer of warmth in elite power struggles.
Li Keqiang suffered a heart attack while recuperating in Shanghai and died at 0:10 on October 27, 2023, at the age of 68, after efforts to save him failed.
The sudden death from a heart attack of former Premier Li Keqiang triggered spontaneous national mourning. Universities and authorities across various regions implemented strict security and censorship measures, restricting flowers and gatherings, turning the mourning into an expression of dissatisfaction with the current status quo.
Li Keqiang died in Shanghai. The program linked his death to Xi Jinping and the internal power struggles within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but provided no verifiable causal evidence.
On the afternoon of August 30, 2023, Li Keqiang, who had been retired for half a year, made a public appearance at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu. This was his first public appearance after a long period of no public activities, and also his last public footage. The highest-ranking official accompanying him was identified as the Party Secretary of the Dunhuang Academy. Citizens at the scene spontaneously gathered around and shouted "Hello, Premier" to Li Keqiang.