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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - China’s national flag flies at half-mast at the Red Building of Peking University in Beijing on August 18, 2026, to mourn the death of former premier Zhu Rongji. — AFP pic
BEIJING, Aug 18 — Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji was mourned on Tuesday with lowered flags and social media commemorations, ahead of a funeral for the reforming trailblazer who died last week at 97.
Known for his decisive restructuring of the Chinese economy during a five-year premiership starting in 1998, Zhu has been praised since his Wednesday passing by state news agency Xinhua as “an outstanding proletarian revolutionist (and) statesman”.
Flags were lowered at government buildings across Beijing on Tuesday, AFP journalists saw, as well as on Tiananmen Square, the expansive and highly securitised site in the capital city’s centre.
Online, the Tiananmen tribute was the top trending topic on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
“Thank you for everything you have done for this land – we will always remember you,” wrote one commenter on Weibo.
Zhu’s remains will be cremated on Tuesday in Beijing, Xinhua said Sunday, with a farewell gathering attended by senior leaders of China’s ruling Communist Party expected before, according to standard protocol.
Born in 1928 in central China and later ascending the ranks of the party following the 1949 culmination of a revolution led by Mao Zedong, Zhu’s political roles included being mayor of Shanghai, followed by national vice premier and premier.
His premiership coincided with the presidency of Jiang Zemin, the gregarious, bespectacled economic reformer who died in 2022.
Zhu became known for his ardent anti-corruption drive, controversial dismantling of inefficient state-owned firms and integration of China with the global economy.
Asked once by a reporter how he’d like to be remembered, Zhu said: “I only hope that after I step down, people across the country will say that ‘he was an honest official, not a corrupt one’, and I’ll be very satisfied with that”. — AFP
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