Background
Yang Yuanyuan is a native of Heyang County, Shaanxi Province.
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Yang Yuanyuan is a former director of the General Administration of Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), Yang Yuanyuan has dedicated his professional career to the development of the Chinese civil aviation industry, supervising its modernization and improving its safety for more than 25 years.
Education
He joined the air force of the People’s Liberation Army in 1966 and became a Communist Party member in 1968. Yang graduated from the CAAC’s Senior Flight Institute in 1969. He is a firstgrade pilot.
Career
Since 1981 Yang has spent his career within the CAAC, an organization directly under the State Council. He had been a flight instructor, deputy chief of the flight brigade, and flight inspector with the CAAC’s Department of Science and Education, before he was transferred to CAAC’s Guangzhou Regional Administration in 1988. He then served as deputy chief of the flight brigade, deputy chief pilot, chief pilot and vice president of China Southern Airlines, and was appointed director of the CAAC’s Department of Flight Standards in 1998. In 1999, he became deputy director of the CAAC.
From May 2002 to December 2007 he served concurrently as CAAC director and deputy head of the State Leading Group for Handling Hijacking. In January 2008 the former aviation regulator was appointed deputy director of the State Administration of Work Safety, supervising accident prevention at workplaces including the world’s most dangerouscoalmines. Yangheaded theorganizing committee forthe Second International China Civil Aviation Development Forum in 2008 in Beijing.
Achievements
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In 2004 Captain Yang Yuanyuan was awarded the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) President’s Citation, which honors those who have displayed ‘outstanding service on behalf of safety, whether it be valor, professionalism or service above and beyond normal expectations.’ In 2006 Yang was honored with the FSF-Boeing Aviation Safety Lifetime Achievement Award ‘for guiding the transformation and modernization of the CAAC to enhance Chinese aviation safety at a time of unprecedented expansion of the air transportation system.’
‘Under his leadership, China’s aviation accident rate has been reduced from 2.5 accidents per million flight hours to 0.5 per million flight hours during a period when China’s commercial airplane fleet nearly tripled.’ Yang mandated the merger of state-owned airlines to strengthen safety management by creating a large resource base of technical specialists. He founded the CAAC Flight Standards Training Center and the CAAC Civil Aviation Safety Academy of China. Yang became a member of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 2007.
Politics
Yang, Yuanyuan became a Communist Party member in 1968.
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Born
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Nationality
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Ethnicity
Education
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1969
Career
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1998
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May, 2002 - December, 2007
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January, 2008