Jinmei is the senior climate consultant of several ENGOs, including Friends of Nature and Pacific Environment. She focuses on climate change, environmental law and strategic transition of grassroots NGOs. She was the director-general of Friends of Nature from July 2021 to July 2024. She has worked as the head of the law and policy project of Friends of Nature from 2018 to 2021, and her job was focusing on environmental public interest litigation environmental legislation and policy advocacy. Jinmei has more than 15 years of professional experience in China and Southeast Asia. She has worked with ClientEarth China Project as a lawyer from 2017 to 2018 and focuses on legal capacity building and legislation. Before ClientEarth, she has worked as the Mekong legal coordinator of the Mekong Legal Program of EarthRights International in Thailand since 2015, focusing on Chinese overseas investment in Southeast Asia. Before joining ERI, Jinmei worked with the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV) for six years, which is China’s most established group of environmental lawyers, led by Prof. Wang Canfa. She worked as an environmental public interest lawyer representing pollution victims from communities across China.