Yang Dongliang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Qingxian County, Hebei Province. He was born in 1954, joined the CPC in 1973, and graduated from the Political Economy Program of the Central Party School.
Yang has worked in the petroleum industry for several years, and he has also served as deputy Party secretary of Dagan oil field and Huabei oil field. He later became manager of the Zhongyuan Petroleum Prospecting Bureau. In the mid-1990s he served as deputy general manager of the Tianjin United Chemicals Company. In 2001 he was named vice-mayor and in 2007 he became senior vice-mayor of Tianjin.
In 2012, Yang became Director of the State Administration of Work Safety and Deputy Director of the Work Safety Committee of the State Council.