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WORLDLOWAug 12 · Aug 12, 2026, 12:36 PM

Zhu Rongji, who drove China's 1990s economic reforms, has died at 97

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Zhu was renowned for reforms that sought to transition China from the post-Maoist years to a more global market-oriented financial system, without ceding party control over the economy.

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