ZHU RONGJI OBITUARY

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’ Zhu Rongji, who has died aged 97, was the fifth premier of the People’s… In 1991, Zhu was summoned to Beijing, in the footsteps of the then president and party secretary Jiang Zemin, and in the aftermath of the 1989 uprisings in Beijing and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

China | The Guardian reports that 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’ Zhu Rongji, who has died aged 97, was the fifth premier of the People’s…

The report adds: In 1991, Zhu was summoned to Beijing, in the footsteps of the then president and party secretary Jiang Zemin, and in the aftermath of the 1989 uprisings in Beijing and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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