Investment bankers have nothing but plaudits for Gao Jian, the man who is turning China into one of the world’s premier borrowers. A smallish, soft-spoken individual, Gao is the director general of the state debt-management department at the ministry of finance. He cuts a distinctive figure, sporting a shock of spiky hair, a worsted silk tie and chunky black, rectangular spectacles.
His English is fluent and, uncharacteristically for someone of his seniority, he does not use a translator.
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