Yang Dongliang | |
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杨栋梁 | |
Director of the State Administration of Work Safety | |
In office December 2012 – August 2015 |
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Preceded by | Luo Lin |
Succeeded by | Yang Huanning |
Vice-Mayor of Tianjin | |
In office March 2001 – May 2012 |
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Mayor | Huang Xingguo |
Personal details | |
Born | January 1954 (age 63) Qing County, Hebei, China |
Political party | Communist Party of China (expelled) |
Children | Son: Yang Hui |
Residence | Beijing |
Alma mater | Beijing Petroleum Management Cadre Institute Central Party School of the Communist Party of China China University of Political Science and Law |
Yang Dongliang (simplified Chinese: 杨栋梁; traditional Chinese: 楊棟樑; pinyin: Yáng Dòngliáng; born January 1954) is a former Chinese politician who spent most of his career in the city of Tianjin in northern China. He has successively served as the vice mayor of Tianjin, and the Director of the State Administration of Work Safety. In August 2015, he was put under investigation by the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency. Yang was a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; he was the sixth member of the committee to be investigated for wrongdoing following the 18th Party Congress.
Yang was born and brought in Qing County, Hebei. He began work on October 1972 as an oil drill worker, and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1973.
From 1972 onwards, he assumed various posts in North China Petroleum Battle Command (华北石油会战指挥部; now PetroChina Huabei Oilfield Company), a state-controlled oil company which was renamed North China Petroleum Administration (华北石油管理局) in 1983. He served as its Deputy Communist Party Secretary from June 1983 to September 1987.
From September 1985 to September 1987 he studied at Beijing Petroleum Management Cadre Institute, majoring in engineering administration. From September 1995 to January 1998 he studied at Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, majoring in political economics. He obtained a doctorate in laws from China University of Political Science and Law in January 2007.
In March 2011, he rose to become Vice-Mayor of Tianjin.