Zhou Tienong, male, Han nationality, was born in 1938 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. He majored in mathematics at Beijing University and then taught for 20 years at a technological university and at a heavy machinery institute in Heilongjiang Province. He subsequently held governmental posts in Heilongjiang Province, including being vice-governor during the period of 1991 to 1998.
In the 1990s, Zhou held executive positions in the Heilongjiang provincial committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and, in 1992, he was elected vice-chairman of the 8th central committee of that body. In 1999, he was elected president of the 6th Council of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification.
Zhou was a member of the 7th and 8th CPPCC national committees and vice-chairman of the 9th CPPCC National Committee.
He was vice-chairman of the 10th CPPCC National Committee and is now Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of Chinese Kuomintang and a Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 11th NPC.