At the end of 20 12, Zhou entered the second national table tennis team and was promoted to the first national table tennis team two years later. 20 17 was dropped back to the second team, and was later promoted back to Guo Ping's first team through hard work.

After 20 13, Zhou got many international opportunities, but he failed to seize them. The International Youth German Open ended in the quarter-finals. In 20 14 weeks, he won the German-Korean Open with the score of 16, while the Japanese Open dropped to the top 32. Zhou's technical strength is not bad. 20 17 World Table Tennis Championships, beating top players such as Ma Long, Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong. However, Zhou has not been promoted to the core level of the team, mainly because he failed to seize the opportunity in international competitions and his performance showed a downward trend.