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Yang Ch’i-ch’ing
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Yang Ch’i-ch’ing was a specialist in public security work, first came to national attention when the North China People’s Government was formed by the Communists in August 1948. He was named as the deputy director of the Public Security Department, serving under another veteran specialist in security matters, Hsu Chien- kuo.
Education
Yang Ch’i-ch’ing was educated locally.
Career
When the government was formally organized in the fall of 1949, Yang was given four posts, each dealing with some phase of discipline or control activity. He was named as a member of both the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the cabinet, then known as the Government Administration Council. Most important, however, he was appointed the only vice-minister of Public Security under Lo Jui-ch'ing, China's top security official for the next decade. Aside from a trouble-shooting mission in central-south China during the 1952-1954 period (see below), Yang has served continuously as a vice-minister and is thus the only person at the ministerial or viceministerial level to have such a long connection with this important ministry. Concurrently with his vice-ministership, Yang served for a year (December 1949-November 1950) as director of the ministry's Political Security Bureau; as might be expected, there is no information about this obviously sensitive bureau.
In 1951-52, the Party was engaged in a major campaign known as the san-fan (three anti) movement, which sought to eradicate from Chinese society the three vices of corruption, waste, and bureaucratism. One of the most celebrated cases of the campaign was the Sung Ying episode, named for a senior public health official who was involved in thefts at a Wuhan hospital (see under Chang P'ing-hua). Among those implicated in the case was Pu Sheng-kuang, who was vice-chairman of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Central-South Military and Administrative Committee (CSMAC), director of Public Security for the CSMAC, and Procurator-General for the central south branch of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. Pu was charged with “depraved” living and the “obstruction of the anti-corruption movement” and was removed from these posts. Yang was named to fill all of them in February 1952. The importance of the case can be judged in part by the fact that a Public Security vice-minister (Yang) was brought from Peking to Wuhan, presumably to tighten the security in central-south China.
Having apparently improved the security situation in central-south China, Yang was brought back to Peking in September 1954 and was reappointed to his old post as a vice-minister of Public Security, a position he continues to hold. Like most security figures, he does not receive much attention from the press. Yet the rare instances when he is cited are usually of obvious significance. For example, he was a Hupeh delegate to the Eighth Party Congress in September 1956. In April 1958 he gave instructions at an Anhwei provincial conference on security work, and in June 1964 he accompanied Mao Tse- tung and several other Politburo members when they met with delegates to various conferences then being held in Peking, including representatives to a conference of the Public Security Forces. He is also mentioned on occasion as among those welcoming foreign visitors to China or Chinese delegations returning to Peking. More important, Yang was sent abroad three times in recent years. In April 1955 he accompanied Chou En-lai to the famous Afro-Asian Conference (better known as the Bandung Conference) in Indonesia. Yang was listed as an adviser, but it seems more likely that he in fact accompanied the delegation (which included several top political figures apart from Chou En-lai) as a security aide. And in August 1957 and July 1962 he took delegations to Mongolia for the 35th anniversary of the Mongolian military forces and the 40th anniversary of the Mongolian Ministry of Public Security, respectively.
Politics
In addition to his supervisory activities in the central-south China region, Yang also engaged in other activities. In March 1952 he was named a member of the Central-South Anti-Epidemic Committee, and in the following month was appointed as a vice-chairman of a special “opium and narcotics suppression committee” under the CSMAC. When the CSMAC was reorganized and renamed the Central-South Administrative Committee in January 1953, Yang was also named to membership on this important regional organization. The other position of importance held by Yang in his two and a half years in the central-south region was as commander of the Wuhan Garrison Headquarters of the PLA in 1953-54.
Membership
As already mentioned, Yang was a PLA representative to the First CPPCC in 1949. He was not, however, associated with the Second CPPCC (1954-1959). But then in April 1959 he returned to activity in this “united front” organization, on this occasion Yang served as Party representative on the Third National Committee and was also named to the Standing Committee, charged with handling the work of the CPPCC when the National Committee is not in session. When the Fourth CPPCC held its first meeting in December 1964-January 1965, Yang was again selected as a Party delegate and was once more named to the Standing Committee.
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Born
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Nationality
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party
Career
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1952 - 1954
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1956