{
  "id": 670391,
  "title": "China's Zhu Rongji, economic reformer who helped lead country into WTO, dead at 97",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/chinas-zhu-rongji-economic-reformer-who-helped-lead-country-into-wto",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T12:15:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obit-china-premier-rongji-9.7304226"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer helped ignite China's explosive economic boom by forcing change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the country into the World Trade Organization, has died at the age of 97.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}