He also promised to overhaul bankrupt state-owned enterprises by the end of the year and "work energetically" to re-employ workers who had lost their jobs.

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On a Wednesday in February, Mr. Tourre dutifully fulfilled his teaching-assistant role, staying after a professor's lecture to work one-on-one with a student, hunched over notebooks and gesticulating energetically.

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