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March 14, 2012

What Worries China's Grandpa Wen

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WEN JIABAO still has a year left in his ten-year term as prime minister, in which to put the final touches on his legacy. But on Wednesday he performed for the final time one of the job’s most high-profile tasks—the protracted press conference that traditionally follows the close of the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber-stamp parliament.

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