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Zhu Rongji, China premier crucial to economic transformation, dies at 97
Zhu Rongji, described as a premier, died at age 97. He was crucial to economic transformation in China, notably negotiating the nation’s entry into the World Trade Organization and pushing reforms that revitalized the state-directed economy.
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