Zhou Jiannan

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Zhou Jiannan (周建南) was a politician and bureaucrat of Mainland China until his death in 1995.

Zhou was born the third of four sons in Yixing, Jiangsu province. He graduated from Jiaotong University in Shanghai in 1937. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Zhou left Shanghai. By the end of the year, he reached the revolutionary base of Yan'an and joined the Communist Party. In August 1938 he was sent to Chongqing to conduct guerilla warfare.

In the 1980s, he acted as a mentor to Jiang Zemin.

Zhou Jiannan is the father of Zhou Xiaochuan, current governor of the People's Bank of China.