Yang Weize
| Yang Weize 杨卫泽 |
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| Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing | |
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In office March 2011 – 8 January 2015 |
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| Deputy |
Ji Jianye (2011–2013) Miao Ruilin (2013–2015) |
| Preceded by | Zhu Shanlu |
| Succeeded by | Huang Lixin |
| Communist Party Secretary of Wuxi | |
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In office November 2004 – March 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Wang Rong |
| Succeeded by | Mao Xiaoping |
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| Born | October 1962 (age 54) Nantong, Jiangsu, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China (1988-2015, expelled) |
Yang Weize (simplified Chinese: 杨卫泽; traditional Chinese: 楊衛澤; pinyin: Yáng Wèizé; born October 1962) is a former Chinese politician. He was the Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, he served as the party chief in the neighbouring city of Wuxi for seven years, and before that the Mayor of Suzhou. In 2015, Yang was put under investigation for corruption by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, which resulted in his expulsion from the party and a set of criminal bribery charges.
Yang was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Yang was born in Nantong, Jiangsu province in August 1962. He traces his ancestry to the Changzhou area. His father was a hospital administrator in the city of Nantong. Yang went to college at the Nanjing Marine Engineering Institute (南京航务工程专科学校), where he studied marine and seaport engineering. He began working in the Jiangsu provincial transportation department in August 1981. In 1998, he became the provincial director of transportation. The next year, he was transferred to become Deputy Party Secretary of Suzhou, and later Mayor. In 2004, Yang became the party chief of Wuxi, becoming first-in-charge of the southern Jiangsu city. By 2006, at age 44, he had earned a seat on the provincial Party Standing Committee.
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, during Yang's term in Suzhou, he reportedly maintained close relations with the family of Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee, who was a native of the region. Yang was said to have received praise from Zhou for his work in controlling the razing of local residential neighbourhoods near Zhou's hometown. In 2011, he became the Party Secretary of the provincial capital Nanjing. Chinese language media have suggested that Yang was once subject to a formal disciplinary complaint by Gao Dezheng (高德正), former executive Vice Governor of Jiangsu and the father-in-law of Ji Jianye; Ji was Mayor of Nanjing during Yang's term as the city's party boss. As the city's two most prominent political leaders, Ji and Yang had an uneasy, often hostile relationship. Yang publicly criticized Ji over a rainwater diversion construction project in Nanjing led by the mayor. Ji was abruptly removed from his office of mayor (Shuanggui) in December 2013 to face a corruption investigation.
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