Li has been tight-lipped on whether he will stay in politics or retire altogether after he steps down as premier at the end of his two terms.
, all eyes are on whether premier Li Keqiang will still be part of the country’s top decision-making body.
“Age limit is politically neutral. Unless you break down somebody with charges of corruption, usually you don't take them out if they haven't reached their age limit,” said China elite politics expert Professor Bo Zhiyue, founder of the New Zealand-based Bo Zhiyue China Institute. Other experts think Mr Li may choose to retire from the standing committee, or even from Chinese politics altogether, given how he is widely viewed as being sidelined by Mr Xi during his term in office.Mr Li was once tipped to be in the running for the presidency, but was made premier to Mr Xi in 2013.
Chinese premier Li Keqiang's power has been widely seen as being curtailed by President Xi Jinping during his time in office. “China used to have a more clearly identifiable system of two or three major factions that had relatively discernible differences on how they approached certain key issues, like growth and state-owned enterprise reform,” said Eurasia Group’s senior China analyst Neil Thomas.
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