Yang Shengshi

Yang was born in Huxian County, Shaanxi Province. He studied transportation finance and accounting at Xi’an Highway Institute (now Chang'an University) from 1983 to 1987. From 1996 to 1997, he studied port management at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, earning a master's degree in engineering. He later obtained a Doctorate in Engineering from Chang'an while working in government.^[2]

After graduation in 1987, Yang began work in the Ministry of Transport, serving in the Department of Financial Accounting. He held several roles, including Section Chief and deputy director in enterprise finance and public institution finance. In 1998, he became assistant director, and later deputy director, of the Finance Department.^[3]

In 2006, Yang was appointed deputy director of the Maritime Safety Administration. In 2009, he became Director of the Finance Department of the Ministry of Transport. From 2010 to 2018, Yang held various provincial leadership roles in Jiangsu Province, including Deputy Party Secretary of Zhenjiang (2010), Mayor and Party Secretary of Lianyungang (2011–2018) and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Lianyungang Municipal People's Congress (2015–2018).^[4][5]

In 2018, he was appointed Party Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance and concurrently Party Secretary of the Provincial Local Taxation Bureau. In July 2018, Yang joined China Three Gorges Corporation as Deputy General Manager, Chief Accountant, and Party Leadership Group Member.^[6] In November 2020, he was appointed Chief Accountant of China State Railway Group.^[7]