Yang Gang (politician)

Yang Gang
杨刚
Deputy Director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine
In office
December 2010 – July 2013
DirectorZhi Shuping
Deputy Party Secretary of Xinjiang
In office
November 2006 – December 2010
Party SecretaryWang Lequan
Party Secretary of Urumqi
In office
November 1999 – November 2006
Preceded byWu Dunfu
Succeeded byLi Zhi
Personal details
BornJanuary 1953 (age 71)
Gaocheng, Hebei, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party (expelled)
Alma materXinjiang University
Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party

Yang Gang (simplified Chinese: 杨刚; traditional Chinese: 楊剛; pinyin: Yáng Gāng; born January 1953) is a former Chinese politician. Between 2010 and 2013 Yang served as the deputy director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). Between 1999 and 2010, he was a top regional official in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, serving first as the Communist Party Secretary of regional capital Urumqi and then Deputy Secretary of the Xinjiang regional Party Committee.