Yang Jing

Yang Jing (; born December 1953) is a former Chinese politician of Mongol ethnicity. He previously served as State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council, and the President of the Chinese Academy of Governance.

Prior to his ascendance to leading roles at the State Council, he served as the director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission (2008–2013), and the Chairman of Inner Mongolia (2003–2008). Yang was one of the highest-ranking non-Han officials in the Chinese government.

Early career Yang 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. He worked as a teenager in a farming equipment factory. In September 1973 Yang was recommended to obtain higher education at the Inner Mongolia Industry College. He then returned to his hometown to serve in the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization. In 1982 Yang earned a degree in Chinese language from Inner Mongolia University.

Between 1993 and 1996, Yang 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 became CCP Committee Secretary of the regional capital, Hohhot, an office he occupied until 2003. Between 2003 and 2008 he served as the Chairman of Inner Mongolia and concurrently the region's CCP Deputy Committee Secretary, alongside CCP Committee Secretary Chu Bo. Yang shouldered major responsibility as Inner Mongolia Chairman when a turbine factory in Ulanqab League collapsed in July 2005, killing six workers. Yang's position was also unique in that State Council Secretaries-General did not usually hold concurrent seats on the CCP Secretariat. He has been named as a member of the tuanpai, an informal designation given to politicians with background in the Communist Youth League.

Investigation On February 24, 2018, Yang Jing was placed on one-year probation within the CCP, 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 "have severely violated political discipline and rules and had long-term improper association with illegal business owners and social personnel".