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 Republic of China and one of its most effecti

The Guardian|Wed, 12 August 2026 at 16:42

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 Republic of China and one of its most effective administrators and economic reformers following its foundation in 1949.

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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