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Mourners to gather to remember former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji

NPR | By Jennifer Pak,
Sacha Pfeiffer
Published August 18, 2026 at 2:39 AM MDT

China bids farewell to former Premier Zhu Rongji, the pragmatic economic reformer who steered the nation into the WTO and transformed its state-dominated economy.

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Jennifer Pak is NPR’s China correspondent. She has been covering China and the region for the past two decades.
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Correspondent, Investigations
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