Editing Li Peng (section)

==Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress==
Li remained premier until 1998, when he was constitutionally limited to two terms. After his second term expired, he became the [[chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |date=16 March 1998 |title=China's parliament embarrasses Li Peng |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/65923.stm |access-date=8 January 2023}}</ref> Support for Li for the position was low, as he received less than 90% of the vote at the first session of the [[9th National People's Congress]], where he was the only candidate.<ref name=":6" /> He spent much of his time monitoring what he considered his life's work to have been, the [[Three Gorges Dam]]. Li's interest in the Dam reflected his earlier career as a hydraulic engineer, and he spent much of his career in office in presiding over a vast and growing power industry. At this time Li Peng considered himself to be a builder and a modernizer. As the NPCSC chair, Li pursued the CCP's efforts in "forming a socialist system of laws with Chinese characteristics", which he said required "legislation covering all areas of law", "fundamental and primary" laws within each area, and "corresponding administrative and local regulations to complement national legislation".<ref name=":32">{{Cite web |last=Hu |first=Taige |last2=Wei |first2=Changhao |date=18 November 2024 |title=October 2024: Highlights of Wu Bangguo's Tenure as China's Chief Lawmaker |url=https://newsletter.npcobserver.com/p/october-2024-highlights-of-wu-bangguos |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=NPC Observer |language=en}}</ref>

On 22 August 2000, Li was in New York for a UN meeting.<ref name=":05">{{Cite book |last=Lampton |first=David M. |title=Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War |date=2024 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1-5381-8725-8 |location=Lanham, MD |pages=187 |author-link=David M. Lampton}}</ref> At the [[Waldorf Astoria New York|Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]], a licensed private investigator served him with a legal summons in connection with human rights litigation involving the Tiananmen square crackdown.<ref name=":05" /> A ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' reporter and photographer accompanied the process server and documented the event.<ref name=":05" /> Li was outraged, having viewed the U.S. government as complicit because the summons had been transmitted through his U.S. security detail.<ref name=":05" />