He Yong (; born October 1940) is a retired Chinese politician. A military hardware technician by training, He rose through the ranks of the party in the 1980s, and joined the supervision and anti-corruption system in the 1990s. He served as the Minister of Supervision, as well as

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, the top anti-corruption body of the party. Between 2002 and 2012, He was a member of the

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Biography

He Yong was born in Qianxi County,

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province. In 1958, He was made a "preparatory member of the Chinese Communist Party" at the age of 18, when he was still in high school. He was then admitted to the precision instruments department at

Tianjin University Tianjin University (TJU, ), formerly Peiyang University (), is a national public research university in Tianjin, China. The university was established in 1895 by Guangxu Emperor's royal charter to be the first university of China. It is now fu ...

, where he studied on-and-off until 1968; during this phase he also took time off because of the outbreak of the

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in 1966 which caused chaos in academic institutions. In July 1968, He was assigned to a tank production factory in Hubei province, where he worked initially as a technician but later took on more administrative roles, eventually rising to become head of the factory. He worked for fifteen years at the factory. In 1983, He was transferred to the provincial science and defence office. In 1983, after the formation of the state Ministry of Weaponry Production, He was recommended by then-minister

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to oversee cadre affairs in the ministry. In 1986, He Yong's profile was forwarded to party General Secretary

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on recommendation of then Organization Department head

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. He Yong was named deputy head of the Organization Department, in charge of performance reviews of officials at vice-minister level and above. However, after Hu Yaobang was forced from office, a shake-up at the Organization Department occurred. He left the department to join his patron Wei Jianxing at the newly established Ministry of Supervision, becoming vice minister. In 1992, he was named a member of the

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of the

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(CCDI), the party's top anti-corruption body, and in 1997, he was named

, ranked third, concurrently holding the office of the Minister of Supervision. In 2002, at the 16th Party Congress, He Yong was named the top-ranked Deputy Secretary of the CCDI, earning a seat on the

, and ascending to "deputy national leader" ranks. In 2007, at the 17th Party Congress, He renewed for one more term on the body despite being 67 years of age. He worked for three CCDI chiefs,

, Wu Guanzheng, and

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, and was the longest-serving CCDI deputy secretary in the history of the organization. In 2012, at the 18th Party Congress, He retired and left politics.

References

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