Yang Yuanyuan

Yang Yuanyuan (Chinese: 杨元元; born August 1950) is a Chinese retired pilot, aviation executive, aviation and safety regulator, and politician. He served as Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) from 2002 to 2007 and deputy director of the State Administration of Work Safety from 2007 to 2015. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Flight Safety Foundation in 2006 for the significant reduction in China's aviation accident rate under his leadership.

This article is about the Chinese aviator and politician. For the Chinese-American computer scientist, see Yuanyuan Yang.
In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.
Yang Yuanyuan
杨元元
Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China
In office
May 2002 – December 2007
Preceded byLiu Jianfeng
Succeeded byLi Jiaxiang
Personal details
BornAugust 1950 (age 73)
Heyang County, Shaanxi, China
Political partyCommunist Party of China
Alma materCAAC Senior Flight Institute
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