Zhou Jianchao (Chinese: 周健超; born June 11, 1988) is a Chinese-American chess player.

[4] Zhou reached round three at the World Cup 2007, where he eventually lost to Michael Adams.

In March 2009, Zhou became for the first time in his career a top 100 player in the world.

Zhou Jianchao scored 6/9 points (+3,=6,-0) at the 2010 Aeroflot Open, coming 4th out of 80 players with a 2777 performance.

[5] In 2011 he came third in the Lake Sevan tournament in Martuni[6] and won the 1st Chinese Rapid Championship in Hefei.