2002-08-16 04:00:00 PDT Beijing-- The Chinese government announced Thursday it would bring corruption charges against a former top banker who was a protege of Prime Minister Zhu Rongji. Zhu Xiaohua ...

Zhu Rongji began his tenure as China's prime minister with a promise. During his now famous March 1998 press conference at the National People's Congress, the bold and freewheeling Zhu pledged that ...

BEIJING — Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji offered a spirited defense of his job performance Friday, citing the country’s continued economic growth--especially through the Asian financial crisis--as his ...

BEIJING — In his final report as head of China’s government, Premier Zhu Rongji called for continued high economic growth and bureaucratic streamlining while warning of the widening gap between rich ...

Foreign businessmen are crazy about Zhu Rongji, China's vice prime minister and anointed czar of economic reform. A senior executive at NEC, the giant Japanese electronics firm, says China is in his ...

At Foreign Policy this week, Nels Frye examined civilian official’s curious uniformity of dress at the 18th Party Congress, and the various political pressures that encourage it. China’s top leaders ...

On the eve of his retirement, Premier Zhu Rongji said Wednesday that spreading prosperity to the rural poor, left behind in China's two-decade-old economic boom, will be the communist government's top ...

Like a specter from the past, Zhu Rongji is back on the stage in China -- at least in book form. One of the unexpected bestsellers in China this year is "Zhu Rongji Answers Journalists' Questions." It ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

China is channelling its old leaders. A new book of speeches by Zhu Rongji has focused attention on the ex-premier who slashed state-owned enterprises, tamed banks and curbed runaway inflation in the ...