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Yang graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University, and was once the editor of Zhonghua Book Company, co-founded and presided over Knowledge of Literature and History. Later, he was transferred to the General Administration of Press and Publication, and served as a director, party member, vice president, party secretary and president of China Publishing Group. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of China.

He is the author of Editorial Art, Published Papers and Editorial Literacy. Prose collections include: Where is Florence, Nostalgia Brought by Trains and Pursuit of Shangri-La; There are also history books such as The Story of Yan Zi, The Story of the Spring and Autumn Period, The Story of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Xin Qiji, Selected Translation of Shi Shuo Xin Yu (cooperation). Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences in China in the Twentieth Century (ten volumes), Arrangement and Publication of Ancient Books and Catalogue of Ancient Books in China (cooperation). He used to be the editor-in-chief of the Great China Library, a large bilingual Chinese-English series. Director of the Working Committee on Revision of the Draft of Qing Dynasty.