Yang Xinli

Yang Xinli (Chinese: 杨新力; born December 1953) is a retired Chinese politician. A native of Julu County, Hebei Province, he began his career in December 1970 and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in July 1974. Yang holds an in-service postgraduate degree and a Master of Laws. He formerly served as vice chairman and deputy party secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), as well as head of both the Organization Department and the Publicity Department of the CCP Jiangsu Provincial Committee.^[1]

Yang began his career in December 1970 as a soldier in the 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Company, 146th Regiment, 49th Division of the People's Liberation Army. In April 1976, he became a cadre in the Enterprise Division of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Radio and Television. From September 1979 to July 1983, he studied political economy in the Department of Economics at Sichuan University.^[2] In July 1983, Yang joined the Labor and Wage Division of the Cadre Bureau in the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television. He transferred in July 1984 to the Urban Affairs Division of the Publicity Bureau in the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, where he later served as an investigator at the deputy division level and, in September 1990, was promoted to division chief. Between September 1993 and July 1996, he completed in-service postgraduate studies in political theory at the Department of Politics of Northeast Normal University.^[2]

From May 1994, Yang served as division chief in the Enterprise Division of the Publicity and Education Bureau of the Publicity Department, later becoming an investigator at the deputy bureau level in July 1995. In July 1996, he was appointed deputy director of the Publicity and Education Bureau, and in October 2000 became its director. In April 2005, he was named deputy secretary-general of the Central Publicity Department while retaining his position as bureau director.^[3]

In December 2007, he was transferred to Jiangsu Province as a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Jiangsu Provincial Committee and minister of its Publicity Department.^[4] In December 2011, he became minister of the Organization Department, a position he held until June 2014. He was also appointed vice chairman and deputy party secretary of the Jiangsu CPPCC in January 2014, serving until his retirement in February 2017.^[5]

Yang was a delegate to the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, a deputy to the 11th National People's Congress, and a member of the 12th Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He also served as a delegate to the 12th Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress and as a member of the 11th Jiangsu CPPCC.^[6]