Zhu Rongji, the steely former Chinese premier whose bold economic reforms propelled the country’s rise as a global powerhouse, has died. He was 97.

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Premier of the People’s Republic of China regarded as an economic reformer who declared that the country had become ‘the factory of the world’ ...

Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who died on Wednesday aged 97, ⁠was ⁠never one to mince his words. When the four-volume ⁠selection of his speeches came out in 2011, they shocked readers with his ...

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 ...

There were no public signs of unhappiness with Xi or his government outside the ancestral villa in Heping. Mourners were full of praise for the blunt-spoken premier who spearheaded China’s accession ...

His term as the head of state was not a long one—merely 5 years from 1998 to 2003—but his work was paramount to transform the country ...

Zhu Rongji, the no-nonsense reformer who died last week, helped drive the hard-edged economic overhaul in the 1990s.

Leader Xi Jinping has claimed former Premier Zhu Rongji’s legacy of economic opening while suppressing memories of a more ...