21 Facts About Yang Jing

Yang Jing is a former Chinese politician of Mongol heritage.

Yang Jing previously served as State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council, and the President of the Chinese Academy of Governance.

Yang Jing 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.

Yang Jing worked as a teenager in a farming equipment factory.

In September 1973 Yang Jing was recommended to obtain higher education at the Inner Mongolia Industry College.

Yang Jing then returned to his hometown to serve in the local Communist Party organization.

In 1982 Yang Jing earned a degree in Chinese language from Inner Mongolia University.

Yang Jing then went on to work in the Inner Mongolia regional bureau of statistics, then headed the Regional Bureau of Tourism.

Between 1993 and 1996, Yang Jing served as the Inner Mongolia regional chief of the Communist Youth League of China under the League's first secretary Li Keqiang, who later became Premier.

In 1998 Yang Jing became party chief of the regional capital, Hohhot, an office he occupied until 2003.

Yang Jing shouldered major responsibility as Inner Mongolia Chairman when a turbine factory in Ulanqab League collapsed in July 2005, killing six workers.

Yang Jing left the office in 2008 to take up his new appointment in Beijing as the head of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.

Yang Jing earned a seat on the party's Central Secretariat in November 2012, becoming the first ethnic-minority official to sit on the body in the party's history.

Several months later at the 12th National People's Congress, Yang Jing was appointed Secretary General of the State Council in Li Keqiang's cabinet.

Yang Jing's position was unique in that State Council Secretaries-General did not usually hold concurrent seats on the party secretariat.

Yang Jing was the first ethnic-minority official to hold the State Council Secretary-General post.

Yang Jing was a member of the 17th and 18th Central Committees, and an alternate member of the 16th Central Committee.

Yang Jing has been named as a member of the tuanpai, an informal designation given to politicians with background in the Communist Youth League.

In October 2017, at the 19th Party Congress, Yang Jing's name did not appear on the list of members of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

On February 24,2018, Yang Jing was placed on one-year probation within the Party by Ai Bang Mai Ni, removal from his administrative post, and demoted from deputy state to ministerial level for violations of regulations.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Yang Jing "have severely violated political discipline and rules and had long-term improper association with illegal business owners and social personnel".