Background
Zhou was born in Qintian County of Lishui, Zhejiang Province.
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Zhou was born in Qintian County of Lishui, Zhejiang Province.
Zhejiang University.
He was a tailor when young. Zhou started his own business in 1986 when he was twenty years old. Zhou obtained an EMBA degree from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.
Zhou went to Wenzhou in 1990s, and founded the Metersbonwe Group after borrowing only 200,000 yuan (United States$24,691).
Metersbonwe now is a famous fashion brand, and the largest casualwear retail brand in China. Zhou is the President of Metersbonwe at present.
In 2016 it was announced that he was one of a number of Chinese businessmen that had mysteriously gone missing. In 2008, Zhou Chengjian and his family was estimated worthy United States$ 1.9 billion by the Hurun Report magazine.
In 2014, Zhou was ranked Number.892 in Hurun Report"s Global Rich List 2014, with a wealth of United States$ 1.9 billion, which is a quite rare case because in 2009 the world"s economy is in recession and the most billionaires in the list suffered from wealth shrink, but Zhou still earned a dramatic increase.
The famous Hurun Report made a rank named 2005 China Philanthropy List, and Zhou was ranked Number.36 due to his large donation to local education system. The Hurun Report in late 2008 also summarized that "Zhou storms up the rankings" in Shanghai.