Her father Zhu Jixun (朱己训) was a businessman.

[1] She elementary studied at Chongqing Jianshan Middle School [zh] and secondary studied at Bashu Secondary School.

After graduating from Heilongjiang University, she was dispatched to the Jilin Chemical Plant as an interpreter.

Later she served as head of the Foreign Affairs Office of North China Electric Power Bureau, director of the Beijing Office of Guangdong Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant, and director of the Research Office of the Special Administrative Region Office of the State Council.

[citation needed] Zhu was married to Li Peng on July 10, 1958.