Jing is an Architect registered both in the UK (since 2003) and China (since 2004).  His extensive experience includes residential, commercial, office, healthcare and hospitality projects across China and the EU.

Jing passed the Chinese registration exams in 1998, before returning to higher education as a mature student in the UK.  By this time he had worked in the BDI MoC (China Institute of Architectural Design Group) for 5 years. During these formative years of his career, Jing built up his professional experience in China and led a couple of residential buildings from inception through to completion.

After Jing’s studies in the University of Nottingham, he undertook a period of work in Ireland and the UK.  In Ireland, he worked with O’Riordan Staehli Architects in Cork, working mainly as the Design Architect to a community hospital in Thurles. In the UK, Jing worked as a Part III Assistant with FaulknerBrown Architects, a renowned practice based in the North of the UK, while completing his RIBA Part III course in the University of Newcastle.

After returning to China in 2003, Jing practiced in Shanghai for 11 years as Principal Architect in two different firms, the first one a medium-sized Australian-owned firm and the other a small firm that he later founded with his ex-classmate Prof FJ Wang, the Shanghai Pro-Form Architectural Design Consultants Co Ltd (SHPFA), which was named after Pro-form Architects Limited formed by Jing in the UK 2006.

Jing has a proactive approach to the integration of design and management. He set up Pro-form Architects in Manchester in order to extend his portfolio even further, drawing on his UK knowledge base and resources, and building on his experiences of practicing in China.

Jing has a long-standing interest in sustainability, dating back to the 1990s when he studied at Postgraduate level in China, producing a Master Degree Dissertation entitled ‘Vernacular, Ecology, Architecture: Eco-architectural Methods from Spontaneously to Consciously’.  Five years later Jing went to the University of Nottingham to pursue further cross-disciplinary studies in MSc Renewable Energy and Architecture and completed his second Master degree.  While at Nottingham, Jing was shortlisted for his studio design project in the 1999 UK Student National Design Competition to design an environmental-friendly steel-structure building.