Yang Yue (; born July 1968) is a Chinese politician, and the current head of the

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of the Jiangsu provincial organization of the

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. He previously held office as Communist Party Secretary of

Fuzhou Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River (Fujian), Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Eastern Min, Mindong linguistic and cultural regi ...

and Vice Governor of Jiangsu. Yang had extensive background in the Communist Youth League. He was an alternate of the

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Biography

Yang was born in 1968 in Ningyuan,

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province (since renamed "

Xingcheng Xingcheng (), former name Ningyuan (), is a county-level city under the administration of Huludao, in southwest Liaoning province, China, with a population of approximately 220,000 urban inhabitants, and is located on the Liaodong Bay, i.e. the ...

"). He attended the No. 8 Middle School in

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, Liaoning. He majored in mechanics and precision instruments at

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in Beijing where he graduated in 1990. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 1986, while attending university. He then went on to obtain a master's degree in engineering in 1996. Yang served as a political instructor at Tsinghua shortly after obtaining his master's degree. By 1997 he was named Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Tsinghua University, at age 28. He then served as deputy party chief of

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. In December 2001 he was named to the Secretariat of the

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; he served in the role for three years. In January 2004 he became vice-chairman of the

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. He became an executive secretary at the CYL in January 2006, as well as the head of the office in charge of youth engagement. In March 2008 he joined the

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. In June 2008 he was named a vice-minister level executive secretary of the CYL Secretariat. In December 2008, he was named a Standing Member of the Fujian CCP Committee, then became Secretary-General of the party organization in Fujian (vice-governor administrative ranking). In September 2011 he became Party Secretary of

, capital of the province. Given his relative youth and Communist Youth League background, it was said that Yang Yue was destined for higher office. In June 2016, Yang was transferred to Jiangsu to become vice-governor. He was not re-elected and left office as vice-governor in 2018. In April 2018, he was made head of the United Front Work Department of Jiangsu. Yang was one of the youngest alternate of the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Yue 1968 births Living people People's Republic of China politicians from Liaoning Chinese Communist Party politicians from Liaoning Alternates of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Politicians from Huludao Secretaries-general of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Party Secretaries of Fuzhou