Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji dies at 97

NPR · BBC · first seen 12.08.2026

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, renowned for driving market-oriented economic reforms in the 1990s and playing a pivotal role in bringing China into the WTO while maintaining party control, has passed away at age 97.

Zhu Rongji has died at the age of 97.
He was known for driving China's 1990s market-oriented financial reforms.
Zhu Rongji died at the age of 97
He was instrumental in China's WTO entry and economic reforms

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