Yang Chuantang

Yang Chuantang
杨传堂
Communist Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region
In office December 2004 – June 2006 Incapacitated October 2005
Preceded by	Guo Jinlong
Succeeded by	Zhang Qingli
Governor of Qinghai Province
In office January – December 2004
Preceded by	Zhao Leji
Succeeded by	Song Xiuyan
Personal details
Born	May 1954 (age 62) Yucheng County, Shandong
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Communist Party of China
Alma mater	Shandong Normal University

Yang Chuantang (simplified Chinese: 杨传堂; traditional Chinese: 楊傳堂; pinyin: Yáng Chuántáng; born May 1954) is a Chinese politician, who served as the Minister of Transport of the People's Republic of China from 2012 to 2016. He has also served as the vice-chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, governor of Qinghai Province, and party chief of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Yang was born in Yucheng, Shandong province. He jointed the military at age 18. During the Cultural Revolution, he worked on a rural cooperative, then was transferred to work at a petrochemicals factory, where he ascended the ranks to become supervisor and party secretary. He joined the Communist Youth League and then the Communist Party of China in 1976, the year Mao died. He then took part in the production of ethylene at the Qilu Petrochemicals Company in his home province. He studied Chinese between 1981 and 1983 at Shandong Normal University. In August 1987, he was named deputy head of the Communist Youth League of Shandong province. In January 1992, he was sent to become head commissioner (mayor equivalent) of Dezhou prefecture. In November 1993, he was transferred to Tibet to serve as a member of the regional Party Standing Committee and Executive Vice Chairman.

In 1996, he studied Tibetan affairs at the Central Party School and described being "fascinated with" Tibet and its "long hours of sunshine, rich water resources, and diversified geological and climate conditions".

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