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LU PING

(Pronounced Loo Ping)

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28 OCT 1991

Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.

1927

1945

1947

1949-52

1958-59

1978-84

1984-87

1985-87

1987-90

1990-

Born in Sichuan Province, in southwest China.

Joined the Chinese Communist Party.

Graduated from the Agricultural College of St John's University, Shanghai.

Head of the Translation Group and Chief of the Personnel section of the Chinese Welfare Society.

Director of the Editorial Office and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of China Reconstructs.

Section Chief of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.

Secretary-General of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.

20/10.

Deputy Secretary-General of the Committee for Drafting the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

A Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.

Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.

Lu is one of the most senior and experienced Chinese officials involved in Hong Kong affairs. He was educated at the Lester Institute in Shanghai until 1941. He then went to St John's University in Shanghai where he obtained a degree in agricultural economics. He has been an important figure in the various negotiations on Hong Kong since 1983, and has visited Hong Kong on several occasions. He has also been closely involved in work on Macao and in 1988 was made a member and secretary of the Committee for Drafting the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region and later its Chairman. He is said by some to have been favoured by Li Peng for the job of Director of the Hong and Macao Affairs Office, in which he replaced Ji Pengfei.

His English is excellent, but he prefers to speak in Chinese. Though his manner is quiet, he is collected and alert. He is always master of his brief, and has quick and agile mind. Lu has a good sense of humour. He sings and likes music. His wife, Xi Liang, has worked for China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) in Hong Kong since 1988.

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