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{{Short description|Chairman of Inner Mongolia}}
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{{family name hatnote|[[Yang (surname)|Yang]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Yang Jing
| native_name         = {{nobold|杨晶}}
| native_name_lang    = zh-Hans
| image               = Voa chinese Yang Jing 27sept09.jpg
| caption             = Yang in 2009

| office              = [[State councillor|State Councilor of China]]
| alongside           = [[Yang Jiechi]], [[Chang Wanquan]], [[Guo Shengkun]], [[Wang Yong (politician, born 1955)|Wang Yong]]
| premier             = [[Li Keqiang]]
| term_start          = 16 March 2013
| term_end            = 24 February 2018
| predecessor         = 
| successor           = 
| order1              = 12th
| office1             = Secretary-General of the State Council
| term_start1         = 16 March 2013
| term_end1           = 24 February 2018
| premier1            = [[Li Keqiang]]
| predecessor1        = [[Ma Kai]]
| successor1          = [[Xiao Jie]]
| office2             = [[Director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission]]
| term_start2         = 17 March 2008
| term_end2           = 16 March 2013
| premier2            = [[Li Keqiang]]
| predecessor2        = [[Li Dezhu]]
| successor2          = [[Wang Zhengwei]]
| office3             = 9th [[Chairperson of Inner Mongolia|Chairman of Inner Mongolia]]
| term_start3         = 3 April 2003
| term_end3           = 3 April 2008
| predecessor3        = [[Uyunqimg]]
| successor3          = [[Bagatur]]
| birth_name          = 
| birth_date          = {{birth year and age|1953|12}}
| birth_place         = [[Jungar Banner]], [[Suiyuan]], China
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Chinese Communist Party]]
| spouse              = 
| children            = 
| relatives           = 
| footnotes           = 
| module            = {{Infobox Chinese|child=yes|order=st
| s  = {{linktext|杨|晶}}
| t  = {{linktext|楊|晶}}
| p  = Yáng Jīng
}}
}}

'''Yang Jing''' ({{lang-zh |s = 杨晶 |p = Yáng Jīng }}; born December 1953) is a former Chinese politician of [[Mongols in China|Mongol ethnicity]]. He previously served as [[State Councilor]] and [[Secretary-General of the State Council]],<ref name="cvx">{{cite news |title = Yang Jing |url = http://news.xinhuanet.com/rwk/2013-02/20/c_124368479.htm |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130330080939/http://news.xinhuanet.com/rwk/2013-02/20/c_124368479.htm |url-status = dead |archive-date = March 30, 2013 |agency = Xinhua }}</ref> and the President of the [[Chinese Academy of Governance]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nsa.gov.cn/web/a/xueyuanlingdaozz/ |title = official website |publisher = the Chinese Government |access-date = 2013-10-18 |archive-date = 2017-12-26 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171226021317/http://www.nsa.gov.cn/web/a/xueyuanlingdaozz/ |url-status = dead }}</ref>

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 [[Chairperson of Inner Mongolia|Chairman of Inner Mongolia]] (2003–2008). Yang was one of the highest-ranking non-[[Han Chinese|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 (city)|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 University of Technology|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]].<ref name="cvx" />

After graduating, Yang worked in the [[Communist Youth League]] as a local organizer in Ih Ju League, then chief administrator of [[Dalad Banner]]. He then went on to work in the Inner Mongolia regional bureau of statistics, then headed the Regional Bureau of Tourism.<ref name="duow">{{cite news |title = 揭秘李克强的"大秘"杨晶 |url= http://china.dwnews.com/news/2013-03-17/59156214.html |website = Duowei News |date = 2013-03-17 }}</ref>

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.<ref name="SCMP">{{cite news |url = http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1185815/mongol-ally-incoming-premier-become-chief-state-council |title=Mongol ally of incoming premier to become chief of State Council |first=Chi-yuk|last=Choi|date=2013-03-08 |access-date=2013-03-08 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] }}</ref> In 1998 Yang became [[Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary|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 [[Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary|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.<ref name=duow/> He left the office in 2008 to take up his new appointment in Beijing as the head of the [[State Ethnic Affairs Commission]].<ref name="SCMP"/>

==Secretariat==
Yang Jing earned a seat on the [[Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party]] 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 was appointed [[Secretary-General of the State Council|Secretary General of the State Council]] in [[State Council of the People's Republic of China#Principal officers|Li Keqiang's cabinet]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/news/Events/2013-03/16/content_1787503.htm |title=NPC endorses new cabinet lineup |access-date=2013-03-17 |archive-date=2013-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318091356/http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/news/Events/2013-03/16/content_1787503.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Yang's position was also unique in that State Council Secretaries-General did not usually hold concurrent seats on the CCP Secretariat.<ref name=duow/> He was also the first ethnic-minority official to hold the State Council Secretary-General post.

Yang was a member of the [[17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party|17th]] and [[18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party|18th]] CCP Central Committees, and an alternate of the [[16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party|16th CCP Central Committee]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://chinavitae.com/biography/Yang_Jing/full |title = Biography of Yang Jing |website = China Vitae |access-date = 2013-04-09 |archive-date = 2012-10-21 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121021135744/http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Yang_Jing/full |url-status = dead }}</ref> He has been named as a member of the ''[[tuanpai]]'', an informal designation given to politicians with background in the [[Communist Youth League of China|Communist Youth League]].<ref name=duow/>

==After 19th Party Congress==
In October 2017, at the [[19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party|19th National Congress of the CCP]], Yang Jing's name did not appear on the list of members of the [[19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]]. As Yang had not yet reached retirement age (he was 63), this led to speculation that Yang came under scrutiny in a party disciplinary probe and was either demoted or otherwise no longer serving in an official capacity. Some of his party posts at the State Council were taken over by [[Xiao Jie]].<ref name="Yangjing">{{cite news |title = 杨晶去职国务院 "个人问题"被聚焦 |url = http://news.dwnews.com/china/news/2017-11-16/60024095.html |website = Duowei News |date = 2017-11-16 }}</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="yangjing">{{cite news |title=Yang Jing dismissed from state councilor post |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/24/c_136997295.htm |access-date=25 January 2025 |work=Xinhua News Agency |date=24 February 2018}}</ref> 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".<ref name="drunk"/> The investigation found that "Yang also took advantage of his post to seek huge profits for others and accepted money and gifts through his relatives."<ref name="drunk">{{cite news |title = Yang Jing punished for severe disciplinary violations |url = http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/24/c_136997192.htm |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180224141639/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/24/c_136997192.htm |url-status = dead |archive-date = February 24, 2018 |agency = Xinhua |date = 2018-02-24 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Zhuang Pinghui |title=Top Chinese cabinet official Yang Jing's sacking 'linked to missing billionaire Xiao Jianhua' |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134592/top-chinese-cabinet-official-yang-jings-sacking-linked |access-date=12 January 2021 |work=South China Morning Post |date=24 February 2018}}</ref>

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