About Yang Taifang
Lived 1927 – 2012 (aged 84–85). Yang Taifang was a Chinese politician.
Yang Taifang (; 30 April 1927 – 17 July 2012) was a Chinese politician who served as minister of posts and telecommunications from 1984 to 1994, chairperson of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress from 1993 to 1998, and president of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese from 1994 to 1999.
He was an alternate member of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was chairperson of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress in 1993, in addition to serving as president of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese since 1994.
Yang retired in May 2004. On 17 July 2012, he died from an illness in Beijing, at the age of 84.
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