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Zhu Rongji, China premier crucial to economic transformation, dies at 97
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BEIJING – Zhu Rongji, a brilliant economic policymaker and a driving force behind China’s economic opening to the world, died Aug. 12 in Beijing. By Simon Denyer He negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and pushed through reforms that breathed new life into China’s state-directed economy.
BEIJING – Zhu Rongji, a brilliant economic policymaker and a driving force behind China’s economic opening to the world, died Aug. 12 in Beijing. He was 97.
By Simon Denyer
He negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and pushed through reforms that breathed new life into China’s state-directed economy.