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Meeting the media: Li holding the two-hour press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. — AFP

EVERY time he gestured, be it extending his arms or stressing a point with his palm, the photographers in the room went wild.

Under the resplendent, chandelier-studded roof of the Golden Hall at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang had the attention of hundreds of local and foreign journalists for two hours.

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