Senior editor at People’s Daily appointed deputy director of Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong
- Lu Xinning, 52, has also been chairwoman of the paper’s listed company since September last year
- She will be the seventh deputy director at liaison office, and the second with a background in state-owned media
A senior editor at People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, has been appointed a deputy director of Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong, the central government announced on Tuesday.
Deputy editor-in-chief Lu Xinning, 52, has also been chairwoman of the paper’s listed company, People.cn Co., Ltd, since September last year.
She would be the seventh deputy director at the liaison office, and the second with a background in state-owned media.
Yang Jian, a deputy director for six years, used to be president of Xinhua’s Guangdong branch, and the No 2 publicity official on the Guangdong provincial party committee.
Lu worked at People’s Daily for 28 years after graduating from Peking University with a master’s degree in classical Chinese literature in 1991, according to her resume.
Starting as editor of education, science and culture, she became director of editorial and opinion at the paper in 2009, and made it onto the elite editorial committee in 2014.
