{
  "id": 676491,
  "title": "Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji dies aged 97",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/former-chinese-premier-zhu-rongji-dies-aged-97-676491",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T14:19:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2022384/former-chinese-premier-zhu-rongji-dies-aged-97"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, whose market reforms helped drive the country’s extraordinary economic rise, died on Wednesday at the age of 97. Zhu became premier in 1998 and swiftly lived up to his reputation as a hard-hitting free marketeer. Among his best-known reforms were a broad programme to privatise unprofitable state-owned enterprises, the privatisation of urban housing and the…",
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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."
}