Zhu was born in
Xiayi County,
Henan in January 1955. He graduated from
Northwest University in Xi'an, majoring in economics. He returned to his home county in 1973 to become a middle school teacher at Liulou School Between 1976 and 1977 he performed manual labour at a commune in
Chang'an County, Shaanxi. He spent the next year at a factory in Xi'an. He received his masters political economics degree from
Northwestern Polytechnical University and graduated in 1982. Zhu joined the
Chinese Communist Party in July 1986. After the
reform and opening up, Zhu worked as an officer in Shaanxi Economic and Trade Commission. In January 2013, Zhu was transferred to become Vice Chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; while this was technically a promotion, given that the provincial Development and Reform Commission played an outsize role in the provincial economy, this was in reality a transfer away from the center of power. On August 6, 2014, the CCDI announced Zhu's expulsion from the Communist Party. He was accused of taking bribes personally and through his son, and his case moved to judicial proceedings. The
Langfang Intermediate People's Court in Hebei province took on Zhu's case in July 2015. Zhu was convicted of taking bribes worth approximately 8.55 million yuan (~$1.38 million), including accepting a gift of a
Honda CR-V from a corporate executive, as well as accepting a $10 million Hong Kong dollar cash gift in the
Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing in exchange for supporting the promotion of an associate. On November 19, 2015, Zhu was sentenced 11 years in jail for taking bribes. ==References==