Zhu Rongji Meets the Press [精装]

本书系《朱镕基答记者问》英文版，它所收录的内容，均根据音像资料、文字记录稿整理而成，只对个别文字做了订正。我们对正文中涉及的相关人物和专有名词，做了简要注释。英文专用名词在第一次出现时做页下注，以后每篇中第一次出现时放在括号内做随文注，再次出现时不再注释。正文中的英文保留，将中译文放在括号内做随文注。《朱镕基答记者问》收入朱镕基同志在担任国务院副总理、总理期间回答记者提问和在境外发表的部分演讲。
《朱镕基答记者问》分为4个部分，每部分内容按时间顺序编排。
第一部分，朱镕基同志自1998年3月担任国务院总理后，先后在九届全国人大会议5次记者招待会上回答中外记者提问。当时，中央电视台、中央人民广播电台、中国国际广播电台和新华网进行了现场直播，世界各大媒体也做了大量报道。
第二部分，朱镕基同志接受外国记者采访。采访内容境外媒体当时报道过，国内尚未公开发表。
第三部分，朱镕基同志在境外发表演讲并回答提问。国内外媒体对此曾做过综合报道。这次收入《朱镕基答记者问》的是演讲和答问的全文。
第四部分，朱镕基同志在出访期间接受香港记者随行采访。当时海外媒体有过报道，这次选取的是其中的部分内容。

Zhu Rongji, the Premier of China from 1998 to 2003, the unswerving economic reformer who helped to tame rampant inflation and put China firmly on the path to international economic integration, became a respected and popular figure among world business leaders, heads of state, diplomats, and particularly among progressive reformers within China. Zhu Rongji Meets the Press --a collection of the Premier's talks and interviews with reporters from around the globe--is the first book to offer such a comprehensive and front-row view of Zhu's conduct of China's foreign and economic policy

Comprised of four parts, the book of talks by Zhu, presented within, collectively give a picture of the history of Zhu's tenure; of the many internal and external challenges faced by China more broadly at the time; and of Zhu the man and his vision for China in the age of global financial interdependence. It also includes interviews with Zhu from earlier periods (1993 to 1997, in his capacities as Vice Premier of the State Council, as well as Governor of the People's Bank of China). The book also includes a foreword by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, an interview with Zhu specifically for this book, and a general introduction by the editors.

For a man known to speak frequently off-script, this set of records of Zhu's talks--explaining everything from China's program of reforming state industry and transforming the financial system, and its approach to joining the World Trade Organization, to its response to the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in May of 1999--will make a significant contribution to understanding China with Zhu at the policy helm. In a nation where biographies and particularly autobiographies of high-level officials are hard to come by (and tend to be posthumous, as in the recently published journals of Zhao Ziyang), these on-the-record talks and exchanges can be an important, alternative means of accessing the character of a leader. Collectively, they give a good picture of Zhu in action--sparring and joking with journalists, stating and explaining China's official fixed positions on important policy matters, while suggesting China's flexibility and openness in others. His encounters and joint talks with such world figures as former President Bill Clinton, Peter Kann, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, journalists such as Jim Lehrer of PBS, and a broad array of foreign journalists, economists and industry leaders, are faithfully recorded here.

While Western readers will have read some articles in English resulting from some of the foreign media briefings included here, the talks in this book are translated from the original Chinese transcripts made by Zhu's office of his Chinese comments at briefings and interviews (without the third-party lens of the simultaneous translator). This will give readers a "you were there" feel to the dialogues, as well as a closer and truer reflection of the words spoken by the Premier.

This book of talks by, and with the man who was called "China's economic tsar" is a valuable historic record for China scholars and researchers, and a compelling historic read for those who closely follow Chinese leadership, politics and economic reform and development.

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《朱镕基答记者问》涉及经济、政治、文化、社会、外交等领域，内容丰富、翔实。朱镕基同志通过答问，解疑释惑，有针对性地阐述了中国政府关于深化经济体制改革、加强和改善宏观调控、应对亚洲金融危机以及中国加入世界贸易组织、扩大对外开放、发展与世界各国经贸合作等方面的方针政策，生动地反映了党和国家不断推进改革开放、建立并完善社会主义市场经济体制、促进国民经济持续快速健康发展的历史进程。