Li was appointed premier at the first session of the seventh NPC. He resolutely carried out policies of improving the economic environment and deepening reform and explored new means and methods for economic macro-control to push the economy out of difficulties and into a new period of development. Amid the political disturbance between spring and summer in 1989， had been holding high the banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Theory of Three Represents and implementing the Party's lines， a time-tested and loyal communist soldier and an outstanding proletarian revolutionist， the statement said.