Yang Jianping (politician)

Yang Jianping (Chinese: 杨建平; born December 1959) is a Chinese official who formerly served as deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong. He graduated from the School of Government at Peking University with a doctoral degree and holds the professional rank of associate research fellow.^[1]

Yang Jianping was born in Jingxing County, Hebei, in December 1959. He entered the workforce in February 1982. From 1978 to 1982, he studied in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Nankai University. After completing his undergraduate studies, Yang worked in the General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, serving in the Secretariat Bureau and the Research Office from 1982 to 1990. He then became Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of Fei County, Shandong, between 1990 and 1991.^[2] From 1991 to 1993, he served as a division director in the Central Institutional Organization Commission Office. He subsequently returned to the General Office of the Central Committee, holding the role of deputy bureau–level researcher in the Research Office from 1993 to 1997.^[3]

Yang later joined the Hong Kong Liaison Office. He served as deputy director of the General Office from 2000 to 2002, and then as Director of the General Office from 2002 to 2009. During this period, he pursued doctoral studies at the School of Government of Peking University (1999–2008).^[4] From 2009 to 2012, he served as Secretary-General of the Liaison Office.^[5] In 2012, Yang was appointed deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a position he held until July 2021.^[6]