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Yang I-ch'en
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By 1947 Yang I-ch’en was working in the Shantung Military District, although the nature of his duties is unknown. A large number of the men fighting in this area were later assigned to the forces that drove into south China in late 1949. Yang was apparently among them because by the end of 1949 he was serving in the South China Sub-bureau (having jurisdiction over Kwangtung and Kwangsi).
Education
Yang I-ch'en was educated locally.
Career
By January 1952 Yang had risen to become second secretary of the Honan Party Committee but soon afterward was transferred back to south China. His first known assignment was in Canton where in March 1952 he was named to head the municipal, movement committee, an assignment probably based on his experience in Honan in organization and supervision work. The five-anti campaign was one of the major drives of the early 1950’s a movement directed against the businessmen. Specifically, the five “evils” of business were bribery, tax evasion, fraud, theft of government property, and theft of state economic secrets. By mid-1952 Yang was identified as the second secretary of the Canton Party Committee, a position he held for less than a year.
Yang's work at the municipal level was rewarded in 1952-53 with promotions to the more important South China Sub-bureau (with its headquarters in Canton), in which he had briefly served in 1949. By September 1952 he was the Organization Department director for the subbureau, a post he held until 1953. In 1953 he was identified as director of the Urban Work Department, from 1953 to 1954 he was head of the Industry Department and from 1953 to 1955 he also headed the Workers’ Committee. This extensive Party experience led to his appointment in 1954 as the second deputy secretary, a post he held until the sub-bureau was abolished in July 1955.
Apart from his work for the South China Party Sub-bureau, Yang had assignments within the Kwangtung government structure and with mass organizations in that province. In April 1953 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Kwangtung Trade Union Council, and in December of the same year, in his capacity as chairman of the provincial committee to overhaul local industry he spoke before the second Kwangtung Provincial Conference on Local Industry. In August 1954 he was elected as a Kwangtung deputy to the First NPC (1954-1959), and in February 1955 he was named to membership on the Kwangtung Provincial People's Council.
Yang’s work in south China was rewarded with an important promotion in July 1955 when he was transferred to Peking to head the newly organized Ministry for the Purchase of Agricultural Supplies. This ministry was abolished in November 1956, but at that same time Yang was named to head the Ministry of Urban Services which absorbed the functions of the defunct Ministry for the Purchase of Agricultural Supplies. Yang's new ministry underwent a change of name in February 1958, being known thereafter as the Second Ministry of Commerce, with Yang maintaining his portfolio. The ministry underwent still another change in September 1958 when the First and Second Ministries of Commerce were merged to form the Ministry of Commerce, with Ch'eng Tzu-hua as the minister. Not long before this last change, Yang had been elected an alternate member of the Party Central Committee at the second session of the Eighth Party Congress in May 1958.
Soon after the merger of the two ministries of Commerce with the resulting loss of a portfolio for Yang he was relegated to an insignificant position in Tsinghai, one of China's most remote and least populous provinces. In April 1959 he was named as a vice-chairman of a committee to stimulate production in Tsinghai, and two months later he was also identified as the director of the Tsinghai governments Department of Commerce. He was mentioned in the Tsinghai press again in the spring of 1960 but then fell from public attention. About three years passed before there was any further news of Yang; then, sometime in late 1962 or early 1963, he became a vice-governor of Hopeh. Normally the Communists announce the election of provincial vice-governors, but in this instance the information was revealed in the 1963 edition of the semi-official Jen-min shou-ts'e (People's handbook). Little has been heard about Yang since this transfer to Hopeh, although he was re-elected to the post in October 1964 and in February 1965 he was reported accompanying Politburo member Tung Pi-wu on an inspection of Paoting.
Politics
Yang I-ch’en has apparently not been a major contributor to the Party press, but he did write an article for the June 15, 1958, issue of Hung- chfi (Red flag), the most important Party journal. It was entitled “Seek Out Resources and Unearth Potentials in order to Do a Better Job of Rural Purchasing Work.”
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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 - 1953
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January, 1952
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1953
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1963