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In this Chinese name, the family name is Xia.

Xia Baolong
夏宝龙
Xia in November 2014
Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Work Office
Incumbent
Assumed office February 13, 2020
Premier	Li Keqiang Li Qiang
Deputy	Zhang Xiaoming Luo Huining Fu Ziying
Preceded by	Zhang Xiaoming
Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office 14 March 2018 – 10 March 2023
Chairman	Wang Yang
Secretary-General of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office 14 March 2018 – 27 May 2020
Chairman	Wang Yang
Preceded by	Zhang Qingli
Succeeded by	Li Bin
Party Secretary of Zhejiang
In office 18 December 2012 – 26 April 2017
Deputy	Li Qiang (Governor) Wang Huizhong
Preceded by	Zhao Hongzhu
Succeeded by	Che Jun
Director of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress
In office January 2013 – April 2017
Preceded by	Zhao Hongzhu
Succeeded by	Che Jun
Governor of Zhejiang
In office August 2011 – 21 December 2012
Party Secretary	Zhao Hongzhu
Preceded by	Lü Zushan
Succeeded by	Li Qiang
Personal details
Born	(2025-08-14) 2 December 1952 Tianjin, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	夏寶龍
Simplified Chinese	夏宝龙
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xià Bǎolóng

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Xia Baolong (Chinese: 夏宝龙; pinyin: Xià Bǎolóng; born 2 December 1952) is a Chinese politician. Originally from Tianjin, Xia began his political career in the Communist Youth League. He served as the vice mayor of Tianjin, governor and Party Secretary of Zhejiang province. Between 2018 and 2023, he served as a vice chairman of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), being its secretary general from 2018 to 2020. Xia was appointed director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in February 2020.

Early life

Xia Baolong was born in Tianjin. In his youth, Xia was an elementary and high school teacher in Hebei and Tianjin, and a grassroots level official of the Communist Youth League. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in November 1973. He received a degree in Chinese from Hexi District Workers' University (天津市河西区职工大学), an adult-education college, in 1980. Later he rose to the positions of Party Secretary and governor of Hexi District, and then Vice Mayor of Tianjin. Between 1999 and 2003 he studied political economics at Peking University. He has a doctoral degree in Economics.

Political career

Xia Baolong was an alternate of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Central Committees, and a full member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Zhejiang

In November 2003, Xia was transferred to Zhejiang to become a Deputy Party Secretary of the province. Xia served under then-Zhejiang Party Secretary Xi Jinping. In August 2011, he became the acting governor of Zhejiang, succeeding Lü Zushan, and was officially elected as governor in January 2012. On 18 December 2012, he was promoted to Party Secretary of Zhejiang, the top political office of the province.

Xia is alleged to have issued orders for the removal of thousands of crosses from churches, including the Sanjiang Church in the Wenzhou area. Wenzhou is considered a centre of Christianity in China, and has been referred to popularly as "China's Jerusalem".

Under Xia, Zhejiang hosted the 2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou. He also attempted to attract Zhejiang businesspeople from abroad. In April 2017 he became a member of the National People's Congress Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee.

Hong Kong

On 13 February 2020, Xia was appointed director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.

In August 2020, Xia and ten other officials were sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury under Executive Order 13936 by President Trump for undermining Hong Kong's autonomy. On October 14, 2020, the United States Department of State 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. Xia was on the list.

In February 2021, Xia said that only "patriots" could govern Hong Kong, and that positions in the executive, legislature and judiciary must follow the order. Xia also claimed that "In terms of those rioters who are anti-China and who instigate riots with extremely notorious acts, for example, Jimmy Lai, Benny Tai and Joshua Wong, they are not only prohibited from interfering in any public power of the HKSAR, they also need to be punished severely in accordance with the law." Additionally, Xia said that principle of "patriots" governing Hong Kong should also extend towards the education system.

In December 2021, Xia said that the people of Hong Kong would soon get "real" democracy under the new electoral system, where only "patriots" are allowed to serve. In April 2023, Xia said that "There are many channels and ways to express interests and demands, they are diverse and a protest is not the only way to express interests and demands."

In April 2025, Xia delivered a video speech on the 10th National Security Education Day in Hong Kong, where he said the "US isn’t after our tariffs — it is after our very survival" and urged Hong Kong to "stand firmly with the motherland and on the right side of history". In June 2025, Xia visited Hong Kong to attend a government forum marking the fifth anniversary of the national security law, where he said that "Profound changes are occurring inside and outside Hong Kong. It is necessary to fully implement the One Country, Two Systems principle, guided by national security, to provide favorable safety protection for achieving better development of Hong Kong".