Yang Weize

Yang Weize
杨卫泽
Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing
In office
March 2011 – 8 January 2015
DeputyJi Jianye (2011–2013)
Miao Ruilin (2013–2015)
Preceded byZhu Shanlu
Succeeded byHuang Lixin
Communist Party Secretary of Wuxi
In office
November 2004 – March 2011
Preceded byWang Rong
Succeeded byMao Xiaoping
Personal details
BornOctober 1962 (age 62)
Nantong, Jiangsu, China[1]
Political partyChinese Communist Party (1988–2015, expelled)

Yang Weize (simplified Chinese: 杨卫泽; traditional Chinese: 楊衛澤; pinyin: Yáng Wèizé; born October 1962) is a former Chinese politician. He was the Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, he served as the party secretary in the neighbouring city of Wuxi for seven years, and before that the Mayor of Suzhou. In 2015, Yang was put under investigation for corruption by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was tried and convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to twelve years and six months in prison in December 2016.[2]

  1. ^ "南京落马书记杨卫泽往事:霸占收藏机构瓷花瓶". Sohu. January 12, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2015. 杨卫泽祖籍常州,但却出生于南通一个乡镇并在那里长大……(Yang Weize's ancestral home is Changzhou, but he was born and raised in a town of Nantong...)
  2. ^ Zuo, Mandy (January 5, 2015). "State media speculate on detention of Nanjing Communist Party boss in corruption probe". South China Morning Times.