Yang Rudai
| Yang Rudai | |
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| 杨汝岱 | |
| 7th Communist Party Chief of Sichuan | |
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In office 1983–1993 |
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| Preceded by | Tan Qilong |
| Succeeded by | Xie Shijie |
| Member of the 13th Politburo of the Communist Party of China | |
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In office 1987–1992 |
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| General Secretary |
Zhao Ziyang Jiang Zemin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 1926 (age 90) Renshou County, Sichuan |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Spouse(s) | Tan Xiaoying (谭小英) |
Yang Rudai (Chinese: 杨汝岱; pinyin: Yáng Rǔdài; Wade–Giles: Yang Ju-tai; born December 1926) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He served as the Communist Party Chief of Sichuan, then China's most populous province, and was the first native Sichuanese to become the top leader of the province since the founding of the PRC. He was a member of the 13th Politburo of the Communist Party of China, one of the top governing bodies of China. Yang was considered a protégé of the purged reformist leader Zhao Ziyang.
Yang Rudai was born in December 1926 in Renshou County, Sichuan province. He received the equivalent of a high school-level education.
In the early 1950s Yang actively participated in the land reform that was carried out by the newly established People's Republic of China and was rewarded for his performance. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1952, and was promoted just two years later to Deputy Party Chief of Renshou County. During the political radicalization of the 1960s, Yang's humble family background made him a model of the "class line" of the Sichuan provincial chief Li Jingquan, and he was promoted to First Party Secretary of Renshou. However, he subsequently was persecuted due to this tie to Li Jingquan when Li fell from power during the Cultural Revolution.
Despite his suffering during the Cultural Revolution, Yang worked hard and took a leadership role in the building of a major reservoir which solved a key irrigation problem. Zhao Ziyang, the new reformist Party Chief of Sichuan, was impressed by his performance and promoted him first to Party Chief of Leshan prefecture in 1977, and only a year later, to Vice Governor of Sichuan province. Yang became a close assistant of Zhao Ziyang.
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