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He continued as director of the Liaison Office till 2017, when he was promoted to director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. He was demoted, in February 2020, during the widespread anti-government protests and the COVID-19 pandemic affecting Hong Kong, to a deputy directorship of that office. Zhang is an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

In September 2015, Zhang stirred controversy in Hong Kong after claiming that the Chief Executive of Hong Kong had a "special legal position which overrides administrative, legislative and judicial organs" and that separation of powers is "not suitable for Hong Kong". Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying subsequently affirmed that his position is "transcendent" of the branches of the state.

In 1986, Zhang was assigned to Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office as a secretary for Liao Hui. On 18 December 2012, Zhang started serving as director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and spearheaded the CCP's efforts against the democratic movement in the former British colony. In a widely reported incident he stated to pro-democratic legislative council member Leung Yiu-chung that "the fact that you are allowed to stay alive already shows the country's inclusiveness".

Zhang Xiaoming (born September 1963) is a Chinese politician and former director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. He rose to that post from directorship of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong and left it by way of demotion to deputy director in 2020.

Zhang was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu in September 1963. He graduated from Southwest University of Political Science & Law and Renmin University of China in 1984, where he majored in law. He studied under Gao Mingxuan (Chinese: 高铭暄 ), who is a famous jurist in China. Zhang received an LLM from Renmin University of China in 1986.