Yang Fuqing, female, Han nationality, is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Yang received her graduate degree from Beijing University.
Yang spent her entire career as a professor and administrator at Beijing University. She led the development of the first 1G IC computer operating system and the first operating system totally compiled with advanced language. She also supervised the Qingniao project, a key national science and technology project.
Yang undertook multiple "863" hi-tech complicated problems. She accomplished several important achievements in the fields of software multiplex and software component technique, software industrialization projection technique, software engineering development method, software engineering support environment and standard norm system. She was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.