Zhu has also announced that he will close 11 of 40 government ministries. The only constituency for devaluation are the large, Korean-chaebol- type state enterprise export conglomerates.

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 ...

Rongji Zhu was a Premier for China with 10 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 News Conference. The year with the most videos was 1999 with six videos.

He also dispatched his top trade negotiator for urgent talks with Premier Zhu Rongji in hope of settling disputes that threaten Beijing ’ s WTO bid.

A series of conciliatory speeches by Zhu Rongji in June 1989 most likely defused a tense situation in Shanghai in the days following the military crackdown in Beijing, according to a newly ...

Born on October 1, 1928 in Changsha, Hunan, Zhu Rongji mayor and party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before becoming vice premier and then the fifth premier of the People's Republic of ...

Zhu Rongji was once a trending topic on Chinese social media because he appeared with gray hair at a Communist Party congress. The leaders of the giant Asian country traditionally have showcased ...

Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji making a speech at the launch of the world’s first commercial magnetic levitation train in 2002.© LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images ...

Since the beginning of October, the news about Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's visit to Japan has whipped up a new "China heat" in Japan, China's neighbor separated by a mere strip of water. On the ...

The news conference with the premier was institutionalized in 1993 but didn’t become a must-watch TV event until Zhu Rongji, a sharp-tongued and good-humored premier, took the stage in 1998.

TOKYO, Oct. 4 -- China is placing unusual emphasis on the state visit to Tokyo October 12-17 of Premier Zhu Rongji, the No. 3 man in Beijing's power line-up. Analysts say the visit will have as ...