Zhou went to Wenzhou in 1990s, and founded the Metersbonwe Group after borrowing only 200,000 yuan (US$24,691).
[citation needed] In 2016 it was announced that he was one of a number of Chinese businessmen that had mysteriously gone missing.
[2] In 2008, Zhou Chengjian and his family was estimated worthy US$ 1.9 billion by the Hurun Report magazine.
In 2014, Zhou was ranked No.892 in Hurun Report's Global Rich List 2014, with a wealth of US$1.9 billion, which is a quite rare case because in 2009 the world's economy is in recession and the most billionaires in the list suffered from wealth shrink, but Zhou still earned a dramatic increase.
[5] The Hurun Report in late 2008 also summarized that "Zhou storms up the rankings" in Shanghai.