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Xu Xianping, a former deputy director of China’s top economic planner, spent decades climbing from a refinery factory floor to the halls of power where he helped draft the nation’s five-year development plans. On Monday, however, he appeared before millions of televiewers not as a remarkable statesman, but as a cautionary tale.