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15 unusual facts about Zhu Rongji


Bright Sheng

In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by President Bill Clinton.

Changchun Longjia International Airport

The name was given and written on the airport terminal building by the then Premier Zhu Rongji.

Charlene Barshefsky

In 1999 she was the primary negotiator with China's Zhu Rongji, laying out the terms for China's eventual entry into the World Trade Organization in December 2001.

Chinese character encoding

An example of the problem is the Taiwanese politician Wang Jian-Hsuan whose second given name is not in some character systems, and PRC Premier Zhu Rongji whose Rong character is not in GB2312.

Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters

The movement was an attempt in trying to resolve the controversy caused by the conflict between the lawful mergers of characters of ‘鎔’and ‘熔’ and the name usage of former Vice Premier Zhu Rongji.

GBK

With the arrival of GBK, certain names with characters formerly unrepresentable, like the "rong" (镕) character in former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's name, are now representable.

Liang Congjie

The organization worked with the Chinese government to ensure enforcement of existing environmental law, including efforts to protect a Tibetan antelope which were on the path to extinction and videotaping the cutting stands of old-growth forest in Western China that led to a 1999 order by Zhu Rongji prohibiting cutting down such trees.

Lou Jiwei

As a protégé of Premier Zhu Rongji, Lou played a pivotal role in overhauling the tax system of the People's Republic of China as well as managing its internal investments.

Premier of the People's Republic of China

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Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

Its Founding Dean, Professor Zhu Rongji, later became the fifth Premier of the People’s Republic of China.

School of Economics and Management was officially established in 1984, with Zhu Rongji being the first president.

Initiated by SEM's Founding Dean Zhu Rongji, the Advisory Board of Tsinghua SEM was established in October 2000.

Zhu Rongji

Zhu Rongji was noticeably more popular than his predecessor, Li Peng, and some analysts point out that Zhu's tough administrative style in the Premier's office bore a certain resemblance to Premier Zhou Enlai.

According to some reports, Zhu is an 18th generation descendent of Zhu Bian (朱楩), titled Prince of Min (岷王), the 18th son of Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.

With support from Jiang Zemin and Li Peng, then president and premier respectively, Zhu enacted tough macroeconomic control measures.


First High School of Changsha

There are many outstanding talents graduated from the First High School of Changsha, including Mao Zedong, Zhu Rongji, Zhou Gucheng, Zhou Libo, Yang Xiaokai, Tan Dun, and 17 members of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.