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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China's plainspoken premier, credited with helping crush rampant inflation during the 1990s and pushing through painful economic reforms, bows out this month after a tumultuous, lifelong climb up the ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE GOALS THAT ZHU RONGJI SET for his administration when he became China's premier in March would have sorely taxed, if not submerged, any leader. In a year when most East Asian economies were ...

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 ...