Zhou Yunjie, male, Han nationality, graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Since graduating from university, Zhou has been affiliated with the Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Company Limited. He became assistant sales director of the company in 1989.
In 1994, he was made the director of the company's quality department. The following year, in 1995, he was appointed deputy general manager. Under Zhou's direction, the quality of the company's refrigerators improved drastically and its sales reached nearly four and half billion RMB in 1998.