As a kid my mom always told me Zhu Rongji was the leader she looked up to the most along with Deng Xiaoping. Truly end of an era.
A great technocratic reformer and loyal servant to the populace who was known to get shit done
An elite electrical engineer by training who was persecuted for criticizing Mao during the Great Leap Forward
Also a descendant of the Ming Dynasty founder Zhu Yuanzhang. Guess greatness ran in his blood
The GOAT
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I hung on to his every word as a grad student and wrote half of my dissertation on his financial policy. He was more reform minded than the current leaders and promoted some genuinely reform minded officials. But he was a statist through and through who helped make SOEs larger and stronger and with the help of American ibanks, recapitalized state banks so they were able to finance the industrial policies of the past decade. One thing is for certain though: he was a pivotal leader
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