Yang Jing
| Yang Jing | |
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| 杨晶 | |
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| Secretary General of the State Council | |
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Assumed office March 2013 |
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| Premier | Li Keqiang |
| Preceded by | Ma Kai |
| Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region | |
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In office April 2003 – April 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Uyunqimg |
| Succeeded by | Bagatur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 1953 Jungar Banner, Inner Mongolia, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
Yang Jing (Chinese: 杨晶; pinyin: Yáng Jīng; born December 1953) is a Chinese politician of Mongol ethnicity. He currently serves as a Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China, State Councilor, and Secretary General of the State Council, and Chair of the Work Committee of Central Government Departments, and the President of the Chinese Academy of Governance.
Prior to his ascendance to leading roles at the State Council, he served as the Director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission (2008-2013), and the Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2003-2008). Yang is the highest-ranking non-Han official in the Chinese government.
Yang was born in Jungar Banner in what was Ih Ju League of Inner Mongolia near the modern city of Ordos, and is of ethnic Mongol ancestry. He worked as a teenager in a farming equipment factory. In September 1973 Yang was recommended to obtain higher education at the Inner Mongolia Industry College. He then returned to his hometown to serve in the local Communist Party organization. In 1982 Yang earned a degree in Chinese language from Inner Mongolia University.
After graduating, Yang worked in the Communist Youth League as a local organizer in Ih Ju League, then chief administrator of Dalad Banner. He then went on to work in the Inner Mongolia regional bureau of statistics, then headed the Regional Bureau of Tourism.
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