Zhou Tongzhan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Anping, Hebei province. He was born in1945, joined the CPC in 1971, graduated from the industrial economy special training course of the correspondence school of the People's University of China, and received the academic credentials of junior college. Zhou spent the early part of his career at the Second Mechanical Factory in Inner Mongolia, where he served as vice-minister of the discipline inspection commission until 1981. Subsequently he held leading posts in Baotou, where he was minister of the organization department until 1991. Zhou Tongzhan was appointed deputy secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial CPC Committee in 2002.