Ying Lianzhi (simplified Chinese: 英敛之; traditional Chinese: 英斂之; pinyin: Yīng Liǎnzhī; November 23, 1867 – January 10, 1926), also known as Ying Hua (Chinese: 英華), was a Manchu Bannerman, a prominent Catholic layman who agitated for church reform, founder of the prominent newspaper Ta Kung Pao, and instrumental in founding The Catholic University of Peking.
From the Manchu Hešeri clan, although his family was not rich and he had no formal schooling, Ying became well versed in the Confucian Classics as a child.
After his fiancé was nursed to health by the Sisters of Charity at a Catholic hospital in Beijing, Ying became interested in the writings of Matteo Ricci and several of scholars he converted to Christianity in the late Ming dynasty.
Ying edited the paper for the next decade, and his extensive writings were influential both for their support of liberal politics and their use of the vernacular language.
They called for the Church in China to be controlled by Chinese priests appointed by the Vatican rather than French ones, who blocked the reform efforts of the Pope.