A customer reads the book, Zhu Rongji Speech Record, at a bookstore in Fuzhou city, southeast Chinas Fujian province, 8 September 2011. A new book by former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji went on sale at the countrys bookstores on Thursday (8 September 2011), welcomed by Chinese readers who hail the Zhu-style directness in the book. Zhu Rongji Speech Record, published by the Peoples Publishing House, is the second book of talks and comments made by the former Chinese leader. The previous book, a collection of Zhus talks and interviews with reporters, was published in 2009 and became a best-seller in China. The new book, consisting of four volumes, contains 348 important speeches, talks, articles, letters and instructions written from 1991 to 2003, when Zhu served as vice premier then premier of the State Council.
