Ms. Zhu says investors have bought into sectors like commodities and machinery on expectations that infrastructure investment will remain a pillar of urbanization.
After Mr. Lei's ouster, Mr. Zhu says, he handed over the rest of the videos to the authorities, who assured him they would investigate.
China's Mr Zhu says the two sides broadly agree the yuan must continue to strengthen against the US dollar, but they differ on the speed of appreciation.
"A precondition for the summit would be Kim vowing to abandon the pursuit of nuclear weapons and return to the six-party talks, which he wouldn't do, " Prof Zhu says.
Zhu says he is looking for ways to open up a private industry park somewhere in Zhejiang that would provide a bridge for high-tech entrepreneurs doing business between China and America.
Recalling a trip with American colleagues to Singapore a decade ago, Zhu says he was stopped and asked to wait for an hour at customs while his American colleagues were given a quick OK to pass through.
"Everyone knew Zhu, not just for being efficient and honest, but primarily because of his rightist background, " says Zhu Xingqing (no relation), a journalist in Shanghai in the 1980s when Zhu was mayor.
"It is good for him to read them and know how people feel, " says one Zhu aide.
"It is good for him to read them and know how people feel, " says a Zhu aide.
"We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land, " says Yunzhong.
Volunteering for the Olympics "makes me feel that I am totally another person, full of energy and happiness, " says retiree Zhu Hongmei.
Thus China boxes itself in with such reactions, says Mr Zhu.
WebEx does well winning business from cash-strapped new businesses but needs larger customers to reach Zhu's goal, he says.
"Zhu has served as a role model to other bureaucrats, " says Rana Talwar, group chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank in London, who has met Zhu on several occasions.
Coming back to China, in an interview with The Beijing News, whistle-blowing journalist Zhu Ruifeng calls for a thorough investigation into a Chongqing sex video scandal and says more officials allegedly appearing in the secretly filmed videos have not been punished.
Mr. Zhu, the journalist who first wrote about Lei Zhengfu's alleged sexual exploits online, says he asked local authorities to investigate Mr. Lei but was rebuffed, so he decided to publish the video online.
The conventional wisdom is that the economy must grow at least 8% to create enough jobs to ease the pain from Zhu's reform of state-owned enterprises, although World Bank country chief Yukon Huang says a 5% growth can avert social unrest.
Zhu "knows the trip won't be easy, but he is amazingly calm, " says Fred Hu, head of Asia Economic Research for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.
"Zhu said he knows the trip won't be easy, but he is amazingly calm, " says Fred Hu, head of Asia economic research for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and a former student of Zhu's at Qinghua.
Over 100, 000 people have already signed a petition on the White House website alleging that Zhu Ling's former Tsinghua roommate, Sun Wei, be deported from the US and face investigation, says Southern Metropolis Daily.
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