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...When he took office in 2013, reformers hoped Li would serve in the mould of Zhu Rongji, the premier under late president Jiang Zemin who instituted some of the country’s boldest economic changes between...
...Alongside Zhu Rongji, his premier, Jiang helped entrench the sweeping market-orientated reforms of Deng Xiaoping and placed China on firmer international footing....
...He appeared frail at both the congress and Jiang’s cremation. Zhu Rongji, who served alongside Jiang as premier, has also been in poor health and did not attend either ceremony....
...Jiang Zemin....
...Jiang Zemin dies Jiang, the former Chinese president who helped stabilise the world’s most populous country after the Tiananmen Square massacre, has died aged 96....
...But alongside his tough and competent premier, Zhu Rongji, Jiang engineered bold economic and financial reforms and negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization....
...“I’m ready to clear my mortgage and sell the house, then buy a bigger flat for my family and apply for loans at a lower rate,” said Shanghai-based Bella Jiang....
...“Investors have been discussing accountability in management so [Wu’s departure] is not a total surprise,” added Zhu, noting she had led the company for many years....
...Then-president Bill Clinton said in 1997 that China was “on the wrong side of history [on human rights]”, with Jiang Zemin, then head of the ruling communist party and president, standing at his side....
...“Unlike his predecessors [in the Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao eras] who held on to stable, power-sharing arrangements, Xi is a political disrupter . . ....
...I even catch a whiff of raw honey walking past an installation by Jiang Zhuyun, “Beehives: Hives Displayed In Incomplete State During Exhibition Period”....
...In the late 1990s, under then-president Jiang Zemin and reform-minded premier Zhu Rongji, the focus of shrinking the state’s role in China’s economy was arguably a crucial focus of reform efforts....
...Some argue that reform peaked under President Jiang Zemin and premier Zhu Rongji, who left office in 2003 after shrinking the state sector, re-capitalising the banking system, and ushering China into the...
...Zhu Junbo, first general manager of Shanghai’s Duo Yun Xuan auction house, says that without help to sustain them, “in 10 years a lot of the private museums will be gone”....
...“We sold more than 20 flats last month, all bought by Chinese,” said Fame Zhu, an agent in Bangkok. Mr Zhu said his sales have increased faster than ever recently....
...But Mr Guo is an accomplished technocrat and protégé of former premier Zhu Rongji, who has led the party’s charge against financial risk this year....
...Like the outgoing central bank governor, he rose to prominence in the 1990s under Zhu Rongji, the former premier who pushed through a series of difficult economic and financial reforms and negotiated China...
...“It’s by far BMW’s best market in terms of growth outlook — nowhere else comes even remotely close,” says Robin Zhu of Bernstein in Hong Kong....
...With his acerbic but popular premier, Zhu Rongji, Mr Jiang oversaw reforms paving the way for China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation and emergence as a global economic power....
...While Mr Jiang and his activist premier, Zhu Rongji, put the Chinese economy on a firm footing by restructuring an insolvent banking system and negotiating China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation...
...Mr Jiang and his formidable premier, Zhu Rongji, were 71 and 69 respectively at the outset of their final term in office, during which time they steered China into the World Trade Organisation and restructured...
...Caixin, a respected financial magazine, initially published an interview with Mr Jiang only to delete it from the internet at the behest of China’s censors....
...Back in 1998, according to his argument, Jiang Zemin, then president, Premier Zhu Rongji and Vice-President Zeng Qinghong steered China from a period of intense repression after the 1989 massacre to a period...
...Mr Wang held financial portfolios through the Jiang-Zhu era, which has given him an international Rolodex that none of his communist colleagues possess....
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