As a manager, he has coached several clubs within the Chinese football league divisions, which include Hunan Shoking, Yunnan Lijiang Dongba, Nanchang Hengyuan, Changsha Ginde F.C., Shenzhen Fengpeng and Yinchuan Helanshan.
[1] He would soon receive a call up to the Chinese national team and make his debut in a friendly against Australia on December 4, 1983, in a 2–1 victory.
[3] After spending his whole career with the same team and nearing the end of career Zhu would decide to leave the club at the beginning of the 1994 league season for a new challenge in joining recently created football club Shenzhen Feiyada and aid them in establishing themselves within the football league pyramid.
After spending a few years at Dalian Zhu would take his first manager appointment at second tier club Hunan Shoking where he achieved little success before joining another lower league side Yunnan Lijiang Dongba and then Nanchang Hengyuan before becoming an assistant again with top tier side Changsha Ginde F.C.
This time Zhu's reign lasted considerably longer and he guided the club to an eleventh-place finish.