Shanghai. Zhu was born in 1944. His ancestral home is Shanghai. Former Deputy Secretary of Party Committee of Huawei Group. He joined Huawei in early 2005. Before joining Huawei, he was a professor and vice president of physics at the Graduate School of China University of Science and Technology. Both Zhu and his father's ancestral homes are in Shanghai. Zudi, a Chinese word meaning ancestral home, comes from the first moment of surprise.