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  "id": 668964,
  "title": "Zhu Rongji, who drove China's 1990s economic reforms, has died at 97",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/zhu-rongji-who-drove-chinas-1990s-economic-reforms-has-died-at-97",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T12:36:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NPR",
    "slug": "npr",
    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/12/1196705508/zhu-rongji-china-former-premier-dead"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Zhu was renowned for reforms that sought to transition China from the post-Maoist years to a more global market-oriented financial system, without ceding party control over the economy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}