He Jing (politician)

He Jing (Chinese: 何靖; born June 1964) is a Chinese politician who formerly served as the deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. A native of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, he began his career in the provincial government of Guangdong before assuming multiple positions within the Hong Kong Liaison Office from the late 1990s onward.^[1]

He studied Chinese modern and contemporary history at Sun Yat-sen University between 1981 and 1985, later completing his master's degree in the same field in 1988. After graduating, he began working in the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial Committee, serving in various secretarial and administrative roles, eventually becoming head of the Training Division in 1993 and deputy director of the division in 1996.^[2]

In 1999, He was transferred to the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, where he initially served as deputy director of the Training Division in the Personnel Department. Over the following years, he advanced through the organization, becoming director of the Personnel Department's Organization Division and later director of the Training Division.^[3] In 2006, he was appointed assistant inspector and subsequently deputy inspector while concurrently heading the Training Division.^[4]

From 2009 to 2013, He served as deputy head of the Kowloon Work Department of the Liaison Office, and from 2013 to 2017, he led the department as its head. In 2017, he was promoted to deputy director of the Liaison Office, a position he held until 2024.^[5]