Yang Rudai

Yang Rudai
杨汝岱
Communist Party Secretary of Sichuan
In office
February 1983 – April 1993
Preceded byTan Qilong
Succeeded byXie Shijie
Member of the 13th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
November 1987 – October 1992
General SecretaryZhao Ziyang
Jiang Zemin
Personal details
BornDecember 1926
Renshou County, Sichuan, China
DiedFebruary 24, 2018(2018-02-24) (aged 91)
Beijing, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
SpouseTan Xiaoying (谭小英)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese楊汝岱
Simplified Chinese杨汝岱
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYáng Rǔdài
Wade–GilesYang Ju-tai

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.

  1. ^ 杨汝岱简历 [Biography of Yang Rudai] (in Chinese). Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2013.