Ho Nghinh - alias is Ba Phuoc - was born in 1913 in a family with a tradition of Confucianism in Duy Trinh commune, Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province. After finishing primary school in the countryside, Ho Nghinh went to Hue to study at National School, in the same class with Vo Nguyen Giap. Due to his participation in the strike against Phan Boi Chau's amnesty, and the remembrance of Phan Chau Trinh, he was arrested and sentenced to 2 years in prison. 

In 1945, Ho Nginh participated in the uprising to seize power in the August Revolution of 1945, he was appointed as Chairman of the People's Committee of Duy Xuyen district. In 1946, he was admitted to the Indochina Communist Party; In 1947, he was elected as Deputy Secretary of Party Committee of Duy Xuyen District. In January 1949, he was elected to the Provincial Party Committee, and to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee a year later, in charge of the Quang Nam - Da Nang Lien Viet Front until 1954. After the Geneva Agreement, he was assigned to stay in operation (in the secret Provincial Party Committee). In 1955, the Party Committee appointed him to go to the North by legal means. In May 1955, he was assigned to the Joint Armistice Committee (including French and Vietnamese officers). 

In 1959, he returned to the southern battlefield and fought until the day of victory (April 30, 1975), and went through many positions of Standing Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of Quang Da Provincial Party Committee (1962-1972), Standing member of Party Committee V, member of the Presidium of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam during the First Front Congress (February 1962). After the liberation day, Ho Nghinh served as Chairman of the Military Management Committee of Da Nang City, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Quang Nam - Da Nang. During the period of economic recovery and healing of war wounds after 1975, as Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, he had great merits in directing the renovation of industry and commerce, which did not completely follow the stereotyped formula, dogma like other places and achieved great achievements. In the field of agriculture, he persuaded the leaders of the irrigation industry and the central economic leaders to allow the construction of the Phu Ninh dam to solve the economic and livelihood problems of Quang Nam province in the condition that construction capital is still very limited. Thanks to that, half of the province is barren land in the south, 25,000 hectares wide, from a precarious, low-yielding rice crop to a lush two-crop rice field. 

His whole revolutionary life was always attached to the Quang Nam - Da Nang battlefields. Ho Nghinh was the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee almost continuously for 19 years (1963-1982). During the 4th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee and at the 5th National Congress, he was elected as an official member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam. In 1982, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Central Economic Commission until his retirement. 

In 2006, he was awarded the Ho Chi Minh Medal by the President. He died on March 16, 2007 in Da Nang city. Currently, in Da Nang city, there is a Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Fund named after him with the aim at encouraging the research, creativity and application of science and technology of officials and people, especially a member of the City Union of Science and Technology Associations, the City Economic Association, etc., contribute to socio-economic development.