His father is a local teacher in Dafeng.Zhu entered Soochow University in 1977, majoring in educational psychology, as the first enrollment through Gaokao after the Cultural Revolution.
Since returning to Suzhou in 1982, Zhu had been teaching and doing research at Soochow University and became an associate Professor in 1987.
After that, Zhu entered the government, becoming vice mayor of Suzhou and is responsible for education, science, culture, and health field.
[4] As a professor and PhD advisor in Suzhou University, Zhu is the initiator of the program New Education Experiment.
By 2013, there are more than 1500 experimental school participated in New Education Experiment among 25 provinces, and over 1500 thousand teachers and students have taken part in this program.