Zhu was born
Zhu Wenlin () in
Linhai,
Zhejiang in 1912, son of Zhu Zhikang (). His
courtesy name used at school, Zhu Wen (). He had an elder brother, Zhu Wenbiao (). He attended Huipu School, Taizhou High School, and Zhongnan High School. He graduated from
Whampoa Military Academy. After college, he went to
Jiangxi with
Mao Bingwen to fight against the Red Army but was captured during a battle. Zhu joined the
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1931 and joined the
Chinese Communist Party in May 1933. He worked in the 18th Group Army in 1937 and the Political Department of Shandong Column in 1940. In 1943, he was sent to
Yan'an to study at the
Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party. In late 1945, he worked in the PLA Fourth Field Army; in 1945, he was also elected as a member of the
7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1953, he became the First Deputy Head of the PLA Air Force Cadre Management Department, he remained in that position until 1960, when he was appointed the Political Commissar of the PLA Air Force Technical Department. He was promoted to the rank of
Major General (Shao Jiang) in 1955. In 1969, he was promoted to become the Deputy Chief of Staff of the
PLA Air Force. On November 10, 1971, Zhu was examined in isolation by the
Red Guards. He was sent to the
May Seventh Cadre Schools to work between 1976 and 1979. From 1979 to 1989, he lived in
Jinan, capital of
Shandong province. He was politically rehabilitated in February 1988 and died in
Beijing on November 8, 2000. ==Personal life==