Lu Ping

For the Taiwanese writer, see Ping Lu.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lu.

Lu Ping (Chinese: 魯平; 27 September 1927 – 3 May 2015)^[2] was a Chinese politician and diplomat. He served as Head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. He is best known as China's delegation head and main representative during negotiations for the transfer of sovereignties of Hong Kong and Macau from Britain and Portugal to the PRC and labelled the last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten as "Sinner of a Thousand Years" (Chinese: 千古罪人) for the 1994 Hong Kong electoral reform.^[3]

Lu Ping
魯平
Head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office
In office November 1990 – July 1997
Premier	Li Peng
Preceded by	Ji Pengfei
Succeeded by	Liao Hui
Personal details
Born	(1927-09-27)27 September 1927 Shanghai, China
Died	3 May 2015(2015-05-03) (aged 87) Beijing Hospital, Beijing, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Spouse	Xi Liang (m. 1949)[1]

Born in Shanghai, Lu graduated from St. John's University, Shanghai in 1947 and joined the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in 1978.^{[citation needed]}