Ke Zhao would play for the Wuhan Optics Valley youth team before being selected to represent Hubei in football at the 2009 National Games of China.
[3] He would start his professional career in the 2009 China League Two campaign and in his, as well as the club's, debut season, and go on to win promotion from the division.
[4] At the now renamed Wuhan Zall, Ke would establish himself as a vital member of the team's defense and go on to win promotion to the top-tier with the club at the end of the 2012 campaign.
[5] He would make his Chinese Super League debut for Wuhan on 8 March 2013, in a game against Jiangsu Sainty that ended in a 2-1 defeat.
However, the Chinese FA would retroactively impose a four-game ban and a fine of 20,000 Yuan for the incident.