With so many officials and private businessmen eager to curry favor with his father, Zhou Bin had no difficulty cashing in. His business activities include brokering sales of oil-field equipment to Iraq (causing huge losses for Chinese state-owned oil companies); construction of hydroelectric power stations in Sichuan (where his father was the provincial party boss from 1997 to 2002); providing information technology for 8,000 state-owned gas stations; and investments in real estate, oil exploration, and toll roads.
对周滨来说，急切地想巴结父亲的官员和私营企业家多如牛毛，从中捞点好处易如反掌。他的经商活动包括向伊拉克经销油田设备（给中国国有石油企业带来了巨额损失）、四川水电站项目（1997—2002年周永康曾任四川省委书记）、为8,000个国有天然气站提供信息技术，以及房地产、石油开采和收费公路方面的投资。