Early Life
Zhou Xiaochuan was born in Yixing, Jiangsu province as the son of Zhou Jiannan and Yang Weizhe (杨维哲). The elder Zhou, persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, became a member of the State Council and the Minister for Machinery Industry in the early 1980s. He was also said to have been one of the mentors of Jiang Zemin.
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