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

Zhu was closely associated with the reformist economic approach of Deng Xiaoping, widely regarded as the architect of China's post-Mao economic transformation.

Alongside president Jiang Zemin, Zhu laid the foundation for the country’s leap to economic superpower

Chinese Vice-Prime Minister and economic tsar Zhu Rongji, is stepping down as central bank governor in July but this will not weaken his position or bring significant change to Beijing's tight monetary policy, sources close to the central bank said late June 26., in Beijing,…

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.

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.

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