Background
Yang Yuanyuan is a native of Heyang County, Shaanxi Province.
元元 杨
Yang Yuanyuan is a native of Heyang County, Shaanxi Province.
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.
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.
Yang, Yuanyuan became a Communist Party member in 1968.