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Former premier of China Zhu Rongji dies at the age of 97. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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  by a computer. Former Premier of China Jurongji dies at
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  the age of ninety seven. Jurongj was a Chinese politician
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  and electrical engineer who served as the fifth Premier of
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  China from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand three. He
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  also served as member of the Politbureau Standing Committee of
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  the Chinese Communist Party from nineteen ninety two to two
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  thousand two, along with CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin. Born
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  in Changshah, Hunn Ju became a member of the CCP
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  in nineteen forty nine, the same year the People's Republic
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  of China was established. He worked in the State Planning
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  Commission between nineteen fifty two and nineteen fifty eight, and
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  criticized CCP leader Mao Zedong's economic policies during the hundred
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  Flowers campaign in nineteen fifty seven, causing him to be
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  labeled a rightist in the subsequent anti rightist campaign, leading
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  to Ju's demotion and expulsion from the CCP. He was
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  sent to work at a remote at Kardre School. Afterwards,
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  he was pardoned, though not politically rehabilitated in nineteen sixty
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  two after the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward,
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  being again assigned at the State Planning Commission. He was
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  purged again during the Cultural Revolution, where he was sent
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  for re education to a May seventh Cadre school. After
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  Mao's death in nineteen seventy six and the rise of
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  Dung Chaoping afterwards, Ju was politically rehabilitated and allowed to
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  rejoin the CCP. He worked in the Ministry of Petroleum
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  from nineteen seventy six to nineteen seventy nine and joined
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  the State Economic Commission, successor of the State Planning Commission,
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  in nineteen seventy nine. He served as the Vice Minister
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  of the Commission from nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty seven.
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  In nineteen eighty eight, he became the mayor of Shanghai,
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  where he pursued economic reforms. He worked with Shanghai c
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  CP Secretary Jiang Zemin, who he succeeded as Shanghai c
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  CP Secretary in nineteen eighty nine. When Xiang was promoted
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  to CCP General Secretary. Ju became the first ranked Vice
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  premier in nineteen ninety three, serving under Premier Li Peng,
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  where he pursued further economic reforms. He was further promoted
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  to being premier in nineteen ninety eight. In his capacity
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  as first Vice Premier and Premier, Ju was regarded as
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  the leading figure behind China's economic policy and a key
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  decision maker of the reform and opening up. Ju had
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  a reputation as a tough but pragmatic administrator. During his office,
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  China's economy saw double digit growth. Ju was also much
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  more popular than his predecessor Li Peng among the Chinese public. However,
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  Ju's opponents argue that his tough and pragmatic stance on
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  policy was unrealistic and unnecessary, and many of his promises
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  were left unfulfilled. Ju retired in two thousand three and
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  was not a public figure thereafter. Ju died in Beijing
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  on the twelfth of August twenty twenty six, at the
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  age of ninety seven. The Premier of the State Council
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  of the People's Republic of China is the head of
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  government of the People's Republic of China and leader of
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  the State Council, the executive organ of the National People's
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  Congress and highest administrative organ of state power. That's it
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  for now. See the episode notes for sources and licensing.
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  Thank you,