Yang Yichen (; March 31, 1914 – June 28, 1997) was a politician of the

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Biography

Yang Yichen was born in

Faku County Faku County () is a county of Liaoning Province, Northeast China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning, north of downtown Shenyang. , it has a population of 399,587 in an area of . It ...

, Liaoning in 1914. After the

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, Yang was the Secretary of the CPC

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

Committee. He was the Procurator-General of the

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from 1983 to 1988. Yang was a member of the

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and

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from 1977 to 1987. Yang Yichen died in

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on June 28, 1997.Memorial service to Yang Yichen
'' People's Daily'', July 8, 1997, Section 1.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Yichen 1914 births 1997 deaths People's Republic of China politicians from Liaoning Chinese Communist Party politicians from Liaoning Politicians from Shenyang Governors of Heilongjiang Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate