Career
Lu currently serves as the deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, the head of the General Office of the Central Leading Group for Internet Security and Informatization (one in the same with the "State Internet Information Office"). Lu was previously Vice-Mayor of Beijing and the head of the Beijing Party organization"s propaganda department, among other posts. Lu was born in Chaohu, Anhui in January 1960.
In 1991, Lu worked in Xinhua News Agency of Guangxi province as the Deputy Director, he was promoted to become the Director in 1997.
From 2001 to 2004, he rose through the ranks to become Deputy Director of Xinhua News Agency. In August 2013, Lu convened a meeting to publicize the Chinese Dream, which was described by Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, Charles Xue, Ji Lianhai, Pan Shiyi, Xu Shiping, Qi Xiangdong, Xu Xiaoping, Li Weining, Chen Li, Liao Hong, Gu Yongqiang, Chen Tong, Sun Jian, Hu Yanping, Gao Long, and Zhang Guoqing were invited to attend the meeting.
Lu visited the United States during the first week of December 2014. In Washington, District of Columbia he conferred with senior administration officials such as the National Security Council about issues such as alleged Chinese hacking activities and censorship.
In Silicon Valley he was greeted warmly by the top management of major firms such as Apple, Facebook, and EBay.
