Yang Fasen (; born February 1971) is a Chinese politician who served as secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CCP Qinghai Provincial Committee from 2023 to 2024. He previously served as the vice chairman of

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

, party secretary of

Ürümqi Ürümqi, , is the capital of the Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, also the ...

and

Hotan Hotan (also known by other names) is a major oasis town in southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Northwestern China. The city proper of Hotan broke off from the larger Hotan County to become an administrative area in its own right i ...

Biography

Yang was born in

Gulang County Gulang County () is a county in central Gansu province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northeast. It is under the administration of Wuwei City. Its postal code is 733100, and its population in 2006 was 393,200 people. Located in the east o ...

Gansu Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

, in February 1971. He enlisted in the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...

in December 1990, serving until March 1994. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

(CCP) in June 1993. Yang studied briefly at the Party School in

Aksu Prefecture Aksu PrefectureThe official spelling according to is located in mid-Western Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and 2.714 million inhabitants at the 2020 census whom 715,319 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Aksu urban district. T ...

before being assigned to Kumbash Township as an official in December 1994. He moved up the ranks to become party secretary in November 1999. After a short term as

party secretary In politics, a party secretary is a senior official within a political party with responsibility for the organizational and daily political work. In most parties, the party secretary is second in rank to the party leader (or party chairman). In s ...

of Yiganqi Township, he was promoted to vice governor of Aksu Prefecture in September 2005, and then served as

deputy party secretary In modern Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, and thus the depu ...

between December 2008 and September 2010. In September 2010, he was appoint party secretary of

Baicheng County Baicheng County ( zh, c=拜城县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Bay County (pronounced like 'bye', , ;, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency zh, s=拜县), is a county in Aksu Prefecture of ...

. It would be his first job as "first-in-charge" of a county. After this office was terminated in July 2014, he became party secretary of

Kuqa County Kuqa ( ) is a county-level city in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It was once the homeland of the ancient Buddhist Kingdom of Kucha. History The archaeological excavation of Neolithic cultural sites, such as the ( z ...

, serving until December 2016. He became deputy secretary of

in December 2016, and then party secretary, the top political position in the prefecture, beginning in February 2018. He concurrently served as vice chairman of

since March 2021. On October 21, he was unanimously chosen as party secretary of

, the capital of Xinjiang, becoming the youngest man to hold the position of top official in a provincial capital. He was also admitted to member of the standing committee of the CCP Xinjiang Regional Committee, the region's top authority. In 2022, he was elected as an alternate of the 20th Central Committee. He was appointed as secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CCP Qinghai Provincial Committee in May 2023.

Downfall

On 14 October 2024, Yang turned himself in and is cooperating with the

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest supervisory organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCDI is elected and supervised by the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP National Congress. ...

(CCDI) and National Commission of Supervision for investigation of "suspected violations of disciplines and laws".

Honors and awards

* June 2015 Title of National Excellent Party Secretary in a County

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Fasen 1971 births Living people People from Gulang County People's Republic of China politicians from Xinjiang Chinese Communist Party politicians from Xinjiang Alternates of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party