Zhu was born Zhou Zhiyi (周志毅) in Chaoyang County (now Chaoyang District, Shantou), Guangdong, in March 1924. He became a member of the Shanghai Student Salvation Association in 1939. In 1945, he enrolled at St. John's University, Shanghai, where he majored in the Department of Chemistry. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 1945.[2] During his school years, he was one of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in the university.[citation needed]
Career
After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he was appointed deputy director of the Service Department of the Shanghai Municipal Working Committee of the China New Democratic Youth League (now Communist Youth League of China), secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Youth Federation, and deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Sports Preparatory Committee. In 1951, he was the representative of the Central Committee of the Chinese New Democratic Youth League to the headquarters of the World Democratic Youth League in Hungary and a journalist for the Chinese Press Corps at the Geneva Conference. In 1954, he was made head of the Central International Liaison Department of the Chinese New Democratic Youth League. In 1962, he was elevated to deputy head of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China and secretary-general of the All-China Youth Federation.[3]
^Shen Xueming (沈学明); Zheng Jianying (郑建英), eds. (2001). 中共第一届至十五届中央委员 [Member of the 1st to 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party] (in Chinese). Beijing: Central Literature Publishing House. p. 162. ISBN7-5073-1034-5.
^Zhan Tianxiang (詹天庠), ed. (2013). 潮汕文化大典 [Chaoshan Cultural Dictionary] (in Chinese). Shantou, Guangdong: Shantou University Press. p. 604. ISBN978-7-5658-0980-4.
^Li Fangshi (李方诗), ed. (1999). 中国人物年鉴 1990 [Yearbook of the Chinese People in 1990] (in Chinese). Beijing: Huayi Publishing House. ISBN7-80039-383-6.