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He Yiming is a Hong Kong badminton coach and a former player for the Chinese national team, born in Guangzhou. A badminton player by background who played for the Chinese national team in his earlier years, he later long led the Hong Kong badminton representative team and was a key figure in its coaching set-up from the 2000s to the 2020s. He joined the Hong Kong Sports Institute as a badminton coach in 1993 and from July 2010 served as head coach of the Hong Kong badminton team. He sat on the Elite Sports Committee for six years and also served as a member of the government's Sports Commission. Under his leadership the Hong Kong team competed at a number of Olympic Games, Asian Games and World Championships, and he repeatedly led the team as head coach. At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games he was chef d'equipe and head coach of the Hong Kong, China badminton team. In 2024 he retired after the Hong Kong Open, ending almost 30 years as a coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute, and the team's coaching was subsequently taken on by figures including Wong Choong Hann. He Yiming witnessed and took part in the development of badminton in Hong Kong, and on his retirement he expressed the hope that Hong Kong players would continue to uphold a never-give-up spirit. He was also part of the Hong Kong, China delegation in a coaching capacity for the badminton events at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.