Yang Gang (politician)

Yang Gang 杨刚
Deputy Director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine
In office December 2010 – July 2013
Director	Zhi Shuping
Deputy Party Secretary of Xinjiang
In office November 2006 – December 2010
Party Secretary	Wang Lequan
Party Secretary of Urumqi
In office November 1999 – November 2006
Preceded by	Wu Dunfu
Succeeded by	Li Zhi
Personal details
Born	January 1953 (age 64) Gaocheng, Hebei, China
Political party	Communist Party of China (expelled)
Alma mater	Xinjiang University Central Party School of the Communist Party of China

Yang Gang (simplified Chinese: 杨刚; traditional Chinese: 楊剛; pinyin: Yáng Gāng; born January 1953) is a disgraced Chinese politician. Between 2010 and 2013 Yang served as the Deputy Director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). Between 1999 and 2010, he was a top regional official in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, serving first as the Communist Party Secretary of regional capital Urumqi and then Deputy Secretary of the Xinjiang regional Party Committee.

Yang was born in Gaocheng County, Hebei in January 1953, near the city of Shijiazhuang. He followed his father Yang Zhaocai to Xinjiang where the family lived at and worked for the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). Yang's father was a human resources official with the XPCC. Beginning in 1969, he performed agricultural labour for the XPCC; he remained there for much of the Cultural Revolution.

Yang entered Xinjiang University in September 1978 after the resumption of the National College Entrance Examination, majoring in political theory, where he graduated in August 1982. After graduation, he continued to work in Xinjiang, where he entered the Communist Youth League organization of the XPCC. Yang was further educated in political theory at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China from September 1986 to July 1989.

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