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Ex-Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who drove economic reforms and led China into the WTO, dies at 97

Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China’s explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the country into the World Trade Organization, has died of illness, state media reported Wednesday. He was 97.

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Muere a los 98 años Zhu Rongji, ex primer ministro chino y artífice del crecimiento

BEIJING (AP) — El ex primer ministro chino Zhu Rongji ha muerto, según medios estatales. El reformista impaciente y de lengua afilada ayudó a encender el explosivo auge económico de China al imponer cambios dolorosos a la industria estatal en la década de 1990 y conducir al país a la Organización Mundial del Comercio.

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