Ex-Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who drove economic reforms & led China into the WTO, dies at 97 BEIJING: Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China's explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the country into the World Trade Organization, has died of illness, state media reported Wednesday. He was 97. |
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