Zhu Rongji, who helped turn China into a trading giant, dies at 97

Zhu brought China into the WTO and championed reforms that fuelled growth.

Zhu Rongji, Former Premier Who Pushed China to a Market Economy, Dies at 97

As a vice premier and then premier, he helped transform China into the world’s leading manufacturing power and led his country into the World Trade Organization.

By Keith Bradsher

Zhu Rongji, Chinese Premier Who Overhauled Economy, Dies at 98

Zhu Rongji, who as China’s premier pushed through reforms at state-owned companies that cost tens of millions of workers their jobs, and who helped engineer China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, has died. He was 98.

By Bloomberg News

Zhu Rongji, reforming Chinese premier, 1928-2026

Jiang Zemin’s right-hand man laid the foundation for the country’s leap to economic superpower

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji dies at 97

After being named premier in 1998, Rongji sought to privatize state-owned enterprises and urban housing, and promote home ownership.

Zhu Rongji, China premier crucial to economic transformation, dies at 97

He negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and pushed through reforms that breathed new life into China’s state-directed economy.

By Simon Denyer

Zhu Rongji, who drove China's 1990s economic reforms, has died at 97

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.

By Emily Feng

China's Zhu Rongji, economic reformer who helped lead country into WTO, dead at 97

Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer helped ignite China's explosive economic boom by forcing change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the country into the World Trade Organization, has died at the age of 97.

Zhu Rongji: reformer who led China’s economic transformation through ‘minefield or abyss’

“Regardless of what lies ahead – be it a minefield or a deep abyss – I will forge ahead unswervingly, dedicating my entire life and energy to the country until my dying day.” Those words, spoken at the dawn of his premiership, came to define Zhu Rongji, China’s towering economic reformer who died in Beijing on Wednesday. He was 97. His remarks at a press conference in 1998 came as China was undertaking sweeping state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms that caused widespread job losses, even as it...

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China’s former premier Zhu Rongji, who steered WTO entry, dies at 98

Zhu died in Beijing at around 11 am on Wednesday after medical treatment for an unspecified illness failed, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji dies aged 97

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, whose market reforms helped drive the country’s extraordinary economic rise, died on Wednesday at the age of 97. Zhu became premier in 1998 and swiftly lived up to his reputation as a hard-hitting free marketeer. Among his best-known reforms were a broad programme to privatise unprofitable state-owned enterprises, the privatisation of urban housing and the promotion of home ownership. He passed away from illness in Beijing late Wednesday morning “after medic...

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Zhu Rongji, Chinese premier who cajoled economy into modern era, dies at 97

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 description of “tofu dregs” flood dykes built by “parasites”, and erring bankers labelled as “half-wits”. It was little wonder that his […]

Ex-Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who drove economic reforms and led China into the WTO, dies at 97

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. Zhu died in Beijing at around 11 a.m. on Wednesday, the official news agency Xinhua reported. Once sent into rural exile to do manual labor for praising reforms in other communist countries, Zhu

By The Korea Herald

Zhu Rongji, Chinese premier who cajoled economy into modern era, dies at 97

Zhu Rongji helped push reforms that transformed China from a beleaguered hold-out against the collapse of Soviet-style Communism in the early 1990s to an emerging superpower.

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji dies aged 97

Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji coaxed and cajoled China's way into the World Trade Organization in 2002 through gruelling negotiations.

Zhu Rongji, Chinese premier who cajoled economy into modern era, dies at 97

He helped push the reforms that transformed China from a beleaguered holdout against the collapse of Soviet-style Communism in the early 1990s to an emerging superpower with economic growth rates envied by other governments

By Reuters

BREAKING: Ex-Chinese premier Zhu Rongji dead at 98 – state media

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, whose market reforms helped drive China’s extraordinary economic rise, has died from illness at the age of 98, state media reported Wednesday. “Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji died of illness at the age of 98 in Beijing at 11:06 a.m. Wednesday,” Xinhua news agency reported. Breaking news – refresh for […]

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Zhu Rongji, Chinese premier who cajoled economy into modern era, dies at 97

PM Shehbaz says that he is 'deeply saddened by the passing of a great leader and a good friend of Pakistan'

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Zhu Rongji, who helped turn China into a trading giant, dies at 97

Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who spearheaded China's entry into global trade and laid the foundation for its explosive growth, has died at the age of 97.

By Emmanuel Tetteh