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Yang Chuantang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Yucheng, Shandong province. He joined the CPC in June 1976 and started working in June 1972, having an educational background of on-the-job graduate. Yang began his career at the No. 2 Fertilizer Plant of the Shengli Petrochemical Complex of Shandong province, where he served as vice Party secretary until 1978. He transferred to the Qilu Petrochemical Corporation, where he served as deputy secretary of the CYLC committee in 1984. Subsequently, Yang was transferred to Tibet, where he held the position of administrative vice-chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government. He was elected vice-governor of Qinghai province in 2003. In 2004 he became secretary of the CPC Tibet autonomous regional committee.

Recent Career Data

2007—	Member, 17th CPC, Central Committee
2006—	Vice-Chairman, State Ethnic Affairs Commission
2004—2006	Chairman, Autonomous Region People's Government Tibet Autonomous Region
2004—2006	Secretary, CPC, Autonomous Regional Committee Tibet Autonomous Region
2004—2004	Governor, People's Government Qinghai Province
2003—2004	Acting Governor, People's Government Qinghai Province
2003—2004	Vice-Governor, People's Government Qinghai Province
2002—2007	Alternate Member, 16th CPC, Central Committee
2001—2003	Deputy Secretary, CPC, Autonomous Regional Committee Tibet Autonomous Region
1998—2003	Administrative Vice-Chairman, Autonomous Region People's Government Tibet Autonomous Region

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