Lu Ping

{{for|the Taiwanese writer|Ping Lu}}

{{short description|Chinese diplomat}}

{{family name hatnote|Lu|lang=Chinese}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Lu Ping

| image = File:Lu Ping pic.jpg

| native_name = {{nobold|魯平}}

| nationality = Chinese

| order = Head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office

| term_start = November 1990

| term_end = July 1997

| premier = Li Peng

| predecessor = Ji Pengfei

| successor = Liao Hui

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|9|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Shanghai, China

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|5|3|1927|9|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Beijing Hospital, Beijing, China

| spouse = Xi Liang (m. 1949){{cite book |last=Publications |first=Europa |date=2003 |title=The International Who's Who 2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&dq=lu+ping+the+international+who%27s+who+2004&pg=PA1029 |publisher=Psychology Press |page=1029 |isbn=9781857432176 }}

| children =

| party = Chinese Communist Party

}}

Lu Ping ({{zh|c=魯平}}; 27 September 1927 – 3 May 2015){{cite news |last=Cheung |first=Gary |date=4 May 2015 |title=Lu Ping, top Beijing official who branded Chris Patten a 'sinner for 1,000 years', dies aged 87 |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1785543/lu-ping-top-beijing-official-charge-hong-kongs-handover-dead |access-date=4 May 2015 |work=South China Morning Post |publisher= |location=Hong Kong}} was a Chinese politician and diplomat. He served as Head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. He is best known as China's delegation head and main representative during negotiations for the transfer of sovereignties of Hong Kong and Macau from Britain and Portugal to the PRC and labelled the last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten as "Sinner of a Thousand Years" ({{zh|c=千古罪人}}) for the 1994 Hong Kong electoral reform.{{cite news |date=4 April 2002 |title=彭定康：寬宏對待中國罵名 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_1910000/newsid_1910800/1910806.stm |access-date=25 April 2013 |work=BBC News}}

Born in Shanghai, Lu graduated from St. John's University, Shanghai in 1947 and joined the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in 1978.{{cn|date=August 2024}}