Zhou Youguang

Zhou Youguang (Chinese: 周有光; born Zhou Yaoping, born 13 January 1906) is a Chinese supercentenarian who is currently unverified.

Biography
Zhou was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province (then part of Qing Empire) on 13 January 1906. Zhou enrolled in St. John's University, Shanghai, in 1923, where he majored in economics and took supplementary coursework in linguistics. He left during the May Thirtieth Movement of 1925 and transferred to Guanghua University, from which he graduated in 1927. Zhou spent time as an exchange student in Japan, and spent his early career working as a banker and economist overseas (mainly in New York City), but returned to Shanghai in 1949 when the People's Republic was established. Zhou was married to Zhang Yunhe from 30 April 1933 to her death on 14 August 2002; the couple were married for 69 years, 106 days and had two children: a daughter Zhou Xiaohe (born 1935) who died in 1941 at the age of 6, and a son Zhou Xiaoping (born 1934) who died at the age of 80 on 26 January 2015. In 1955, the government placed Zhou at the head of a committee to reform the Chinese language in order to increase literacy.

Now he lives in Beijing.