Zhu Rongji, who drove China's 1990s economic reforms, has died at 97
Summary
Zhu was renowned for reforms that sought to transition China from the post-Maoist years to a more global market-oriented financial system, without ceding party control over the economy.
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<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/08/31/gettyimages-1126336176_custom-330872a5ec267da386195767827c32b61e35842e.jpg' alt='Then-Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji arrives at Hong Kong's international airport on Nov. 18, 2002, for the opening of the World Congress of Accountants.'/>Zhu was renowned for reforms that sought to transition China from the post-Maoist years to a more global market-oriented financial system, without ceding party control over the economy.
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