Previously he served as the president and chief executive of First Automotive Works (FAW), chairman of the Tianjin Automobile Group, and Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of Jilin province.
[citation needed] He graduated from the Department of Automation at Zhejiang University in August 1983.
[citation needed] Between 1997 and 1999, Zhu was the Deputy General Manager of China FAW Group Corporation.
He left his post as vice governor in May 2012, then was named Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of Jilin.
[4] Zhu is an alternate member of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.