Yang joined the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in May 1950. In 1954, he was assigned to
Beidahuang as captain of the Mulinghe Water Conservancy Work Team at the Shenyang Design Institute of the
Ministry of Water Resources. Two years later, he was promoted to director and engineer of the Water Engineering Department of Harbin Design Institute. After 1959, he became director and then vice president of the Water Engineering Office of Heilongjiang Provincial Water Conservancy Design Institute. In 1966, the
Cultural Revolution broke out, he suffered
political persecution and was sent to the
May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works. He was reinstated in 1974. Yang was transferred to
Beijing in 1979 and appointed director and senior engineer of the Water Resources Research Institute of the Water Resources and Hydropower Science Research Academy and subsequently deputy director and chief engineer of the Haihe Water Conservancy Commission in 1982. In 1983, he became vice minister of water resources and electric power (later reshuffled as
Ministry of Water Resources), rising to minister in 1988. In March 1993, he took office as vice chairperson of the
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress. On 19 October 2024, Yang died in Beijing at the age of 96. == References ==