Yang Rudai | |||||||||
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杨汝岱 | |||||||||
Communist Party Secretary of Sichuan | |||||||||
In office February 1983 – April 1993 | |||||||||
Preceded by | Tan Qilong | ||||||||
Succeeded by | Xie Shijie | ||||||||
Member of the 13th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party | |||||||||
In office November 1987 – October 1992 | |||||||||
General Secretary | Zhao Ziyang Jiang Zemin | ||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||
Born | December 1926 Renshou County, Sichuan, China | ||||||||
Died | February 24, 2018 Beijing, China | (aged 91)||||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||
Spouse | Tan Xiaoying (谭小英) | ||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 楊汝岱 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 杨汝岱 | ||||||||
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Yang Rudai (Chinese: 杨汝岱; Wade–Giles: Yang Ju-tai; December 1926 – 24 February 2018) was a politician of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He served as the Communist Party Chief of Sichuan, then China's most populous province, and was the first native Sichuanese to become the top leader of the province since the founding of the PRC. He was a member of the 13th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, the top governing body of China.[1] Yang was considered a protégé of the purged reformist leader Zhao Ziyang.