Zhu was born in
Lianshui County,
Huai'an,
Jiangsu, on 28 October 1932. He attended Xiangzhuang Primary School and Huaihai No. 1 High School. Zhu joined the Foreign Service in 1960 and has served primarily in the US-Australia Department and Europe-America Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In June 1988, he succeeded
Yang Mai as the
Chinese Ambassador to Peru, serving in that position from 1988 to 1990. He served as the
Chinese Ambassador to Chile from 1990 until 1995, when he was succeeded by . He retired in March 1996. On 24 August 2022, he died of
myocardial infarction, at the age of 89. ==Work==