Yang Xiaodu

Yang Xiaodu (; born 26 October 1953) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the first director of the National Supervisory Commission from 2018 to 2023. He served as a member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 2017 to 2022. From 2014 to 2022, he served as a Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the leading anti-graft body of the Chinese Communist Party. He has served in Shanghai and Tibet during his early political career.

Early life Yang was born in Shanghai in October 1953. In 1970, during the Cultural Revolution, he was sent-down youth performing manual labour in the Songji Commune, Taihe County, Anhui province, which lasted until 1973. In 1973, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In September 1973, he began studying at the Department of Pharmacy at the Shanghai Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, graduating in 1976. He afterwards began working as a division head and deputy general manager for a drug company in Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet. On December 25, 2016, Yang was named Minister of Supervision, the eighth and oldest person to serve in the position since the founding of the People's Republic, as well as the final one with the abolition of the Ministry in 2018.

After the 19th CCP Congress in 2017, Yang was elected as a member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. On 18 March 2018, Yang was elected as the inaugural Director of the National Supervisory Commission (NSC). He was succeeded as NSC director on 11 March 2023 by Liu Jinguo.

Post-retirement On 20 September 2023, after the conclusion of the eight national congress of the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF), Yang was elected as the honorary chair of the CDPF, succeeding Deng Pufang.