Luo Huining

Luo Huining is a native of his ancestral home of Yiwu, Zhejiang province.{{cite web|url=http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Luo_Huining|title=Luo Huining|website=China Vitae|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|accessdate=2020-01-12}} He was born in Dangtu County, Anhui province. He entered the work force in 1970 as a sent-down youth in the countryside of Ma'anshan, and in 1971 became a steel worker at the Maanshan Iron and Steel Company.{{cite web |url=http://leaders.people.com.cn/GB/10755928.html |script-title=zh:骆惠宁简历 |trans-title=Biography of Luo Huining |language=Chinese |publisher=People's Daily |accessdate=2013-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116182720/http://leaders.people.com.cn/GB/10755928.html |archive-date=2013-01-16 |url-status=dead }}

After the Cultural Revolution, in October 1978 Luo was admitted to the Department of Economics at Anhui University, studying Political Economics. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1982 and graduated in August 1982.

After university Luo Huining started working for the provincial government of Anhui, rising to the position of Propaganda Chief of the province in 1999. He had a brief stint as Party Secretary of Chaohu prefecture from 1998 to 1999. He spent the next three years earning a master's degree in management science and engineering the Business School of the Chinese University of Science and Technology and was awarded a doctorate in economics by the People's University of China in 2003.

In April 2003 Luo was transferred from Anhui where he grew up, to distant Qinghai to become a Deputy Party Committee Secretary and president of the Party School of the CCP Provincial Committee. In January 2010, he was promoted to Governor of Qinghai, succeeding Song Xiuyan. In March 2013 he was again promoted to Party Secretary of Qinghai, replacing Qiang Wei who had been transferred to Jiangxi province. During his term, the party pursued increasingly restrictive controls on a large Tibetan minority.{{cite news | author = Bradsher, Keith | date = January 4, 2020 | title = China Replaces Its Top Representative in Hong Kong With an Enforcer | newspaper = The New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/world/asia/china-hong-kong-wang-zhimin.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage | accessdate = January 4, 2020}}

On June 30, 2016, he replaced Wang Rulin as the party secretary of Shanxi where he spoke of his "all-out efforts to enforce party discipline" there.{{cite news|newspaper=The Asahi Shimbun|title=China replaces its top official in protest-riven Hong Kong|url=http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ202001050014.html|date=5 January 2020|access-date=5 January 2020}}

Luo was an alternate of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (2007–2012). He has been a full member of the 18th (2012–2017) and 19th (2017–2022) Central Committees.{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2010-01/13/content_12800199.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202200855/http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2010-01/13/content_12800199.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 2, 2010 |script-title=zh:骆惠宁简历 |trans-title=Biography of Luo Huining |language=Chinese |publisher=Xinhua News Agency |accessdate=2013-02-13}}

In January 2020 Luo succeeded Wang Zhimin as the Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong by a decision of the State Council.{{cite web |title=國務院：免去王志民中聯辦主任職務 前山西省委書記駱惠寧接任 |url=https://www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B/417685/%E5%9C%8B%E5%8B%99%E9%99%A2-%E5%85%8D%E5%8E%BB%E7%8E%8B%E5%BF%97%E6%B0%91%E4%B8%AD%E8%81%AF%E8%BE%A6%E4%B8%BB%E4%BB%BB%E8%81%B7%E5%8B%99-%E5%89%8D%E5%B1%B1%E8%A5%BF%E7%9C%81%E5%A7%94%E6%9B%B8%E8%A8%98%E9%A7%B1%E6%83%A0%E5%AF%A7%E6%8E%A5%E4%BB%BB |website=香港01 |accessdate=4 January 2020|date=4 January 2020|language=zh}}{{cite web |title=Lack of HK experience no barrier for liaison chief|url=https://gbcode.rthk.hk/TuniS/news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1501026-20200104.htm|author=|date= 4 January 2020|accessdate= 4 January 2020|publisher=RTHK}}{{cite web |title='Reshuffle doesn't signal a major policy change'|url=https://gbcode.rthk.hk/TuniS/news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1501031-20200104.htm|author=|date= 4 January 2020|accessdate= 4 January 2020|publisher=RTHK|quote=}} His appointment was widely viewed as fall-out from the rout of pro-Beijing candidates in the November 2019 District Council elections.{{cite news|newspaper=The Star Online|title=China names Luo Huining as new Hong Kong Liaison Director|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/01/04/china-names-luo-huining-as-new-hong-kong-liaison-director|date=4 January 2020|access-date=5 January 2020}}

On 3 July 2020, Xinhua, the official Chinese state news agency, stated that the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was formally established with 10 members. Luo was appointed as a National Security Advisor to the committee.{{cite web |last1= Liu |first1 = Mingyang |title= The Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is formally established with Carrie Lam as chairman |url= http://www.xinhuanet.com/renshi/2020-07/03/c_1126193231.htm |website=Xinhua Net |accessdate=8 August 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808053324/http://www.xinhuanet.com/2020-07/06/c_1126203435.htm|archivedate=8 August 2020 |date=8 August 2020}}

In August 2020, Luo and ten other officials were sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury under Executive Order 13936 by President Trump for undermining Hong Kong's autonomy. Luo responded: "I can send $100 to Mr. Trump to freeze since I don't have any assets abroad."{{cite news |title=US sanctions Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, police chief and 9 other top officials for 'undermining autonomy' |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/07/breaking-us-sanctions-hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-police-chief-and-other-top-officials-for-undermining-autonomy/ |accessdate=7 August 2020 |work=Hong Kong Free Press HKFP |date=7 August 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Macias |first1=Amanda |title=U.S. sanctions Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam for carrying out Chinese 'policies of suppression' |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/us-sanctions-hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam.html |accessdate=7 August 2020 |work=CNBC |date=7 August 2020 |language=en}}{{cite web |url= https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1088 |publisher= United States Department of the Treasury |title= Treasury Sanctions Individuals for Undermining Hong Kong's Autonomy |date=7 August 2020 |accessdate=7 August 2020}}{{Cite news|last1=Staff|last2=agencies|date=2020-08-08|title='I can send $100 to Mr Trump': senior Chinese official ridicules US Hong Kong sanctions|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/08/i-can-send-100-to-mr-trump-senior-chinese-official-ridicules-us-hong-kong-sanctions|access-date=2020-10-28|issn=0261-3077}}

On October 14, 2020, the United States Department of State released a report on 10 individuals who materially contributed to the failure of the China to meet its obligations under the Sino–British Joint Declaration and Hong Kong's Basic Law. Luo was on the list.{{cite web |last1= U.S. Department of State | title= Identification of Foreign Persons Involved in the Erosion of the Obligations of China Under the Joint Declaration or the Basic Law |url= https://www.state.gov/identification-of-foreign-persons-involved-in-the-erosion-of-the-obligations-of-china-under-the-joint-declaration-or-the-basic-law/ |access-date=14 October 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201015031346/https://www.state.gov/identification-of-foreign-persons-involved-in-the-erosion-of-the-obligations-of-china-under-the-joint-declaration-or-the-basic-law/ | archive-date=15 October 2020}} Reporting at that time took note repeatedly of his ascension.

On January 14, 2023, Lou Huining was succeeded by Zheng Yanxiong as the director of the Liaison Office.{{Cite news |last= |date=2023-01-14 |title=China appoints new Hong Kong liaison office chief |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-appoints-new-hong-kong-liaison-office-chief-2023-01-14/ |access-date=2023-01-14}}

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