Zhu Rongji: A Reformer Who Centralized More Power in the Chinese State
The former Chinese premier’s willingness to communicate made him popular with foreign leaders, but his reforms mainly helped to strengthen Beijing’s control.
Then Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji acknowledges the delegates after delivering his final work report during the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, March 5, 2003. Credit: Greg Baker via AP Images
At a pivotal 1993 meeting with provincial officials on the eve of China’s fiscal centralization, the then relatively new vice premier in charge of fiscal affairs, Zhu Rongji, stated “the market economy is one of order and legality. It is not whatever one wishes it to be, and it definitely is not one where an official in charge of an area can do as he wishes. The market economy must be constrained by the law, regulations, and administrative discipline and be subject to supervision by the part
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