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

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who is Director of the

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. A native of

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, he was previously the Governor, then Party Secretary of

Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...

province before being appointed Party Secretary of

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province.

Career

Luo Huining is a native of his

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province. He was born in

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province. He entered the work force in 1970 as a

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in the countryside of Ma'anshan, and in 1971 became a steel worker at the

Maanshan Iron and Steel Company Ma'anshan (), also colloquially written as Maanshan, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of Anhui province in Eastern China. An industrial city stretching across the Yangtze River, Ma'anshan borders Hefei to the west, Wuhu to the so ...

. After the

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

Anhui University Anhui University (), colloquially known in Chinese as An Da (安大, ''Āndà''), is located in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, China. Founded in 1928 in Anqing, named 'National Anhui University' in 1946 and moved to Hefei in 1958, A ...

, 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 Communist Party Secretary of

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prefecture from 1998 to 1999. He spent the next three years earning a masters 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

to become a

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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 Communist 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

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as the party secretary of

where he spoke of his "all-out efforts to enforce party discipline" there. Luo was an alternate member of the

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(2007–2012). He has been a full member of the

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(2012–2017) and 19th (2017–2022) Central Committees. In January 2020 Luo succeeded

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as the Director of the

by a decision of the

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. 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

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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.

References

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