Luo Huining (; born 5 October 1954) is a senior member of the

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who was the director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong between 2020 and 2023. A native of Yiwu,

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, he was previously the

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, then Party Secretary of Qinghai before being appointed

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Career

Luo Huining is a native of his ancestral home of Yiwu,

province. He was born in

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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. After the

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, in October 1978 Luo was admitted to the Department of Economics at

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, studying Political Economics. He joined the

(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

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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

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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

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province. During his term, the party pursued increasingly restrictive controls on a large Tibetan minority. On June 30, 2016, he replaced Wang Rulin as the party secretary of

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where he spoke of his "all-out efforts to enforce party discipline" there. 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. 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. His appointment was widely viewed as fall-out from the rout of pro-Beijing candidates in the November 2019 District Council elections. On 3 July 2020,

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, the official Chinese state news agency, stated that the

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was formally established with 10 members. Luo was appointed as a National Security Advisor to the committee. In August 2020, Luo and ten other officials were sanctioned by the

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under Executive Order 13936 by

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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." On October 14, 2020, the

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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. 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.

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