Yang Wenhua

  

His Excellency Yang Wenhua
Premier of the Republic of China
In office 1 January 2000 – 20 May 2004
President	Ren Longyun
Preceded by	Qi Ronghua as Premier of the People's Republic of China
Succeeded by	Han Zhanshu
First Secretary of the CCP Central Committee
In office 11 July 1996 – 23 December 1999
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 8 July 1990 – 12 March 1996
Preceded by	Xi Weizhao
Succeeded by	Li Zhicheng
Personal details
Born	(1951-11-10) November 10, 1951
Political party	Democratic Progressive (2005–present)
Other political affiliations	Communist (1972–2000) Independent (2000–2005)
Education	Tsinghua University

Yang Wenhua (born 10 November 1951) is a Chinese politician and diplomat. He was the Premier of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2004, the first head of government after the fall of the People's Republic of China. Before that he had also been the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1996 and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1996 to 1999. Originally a reformist politician of the CCP, he joined the administration of President Ren Longyun upon the creation of the Republic of China in 2000 as Premier. Yang resigned in 2004 after disagreements with President Ren over his autocratic style of leadership, and has since become one of the leading opposition leaders to the president in China as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. Since the 2021 Chinese legislative election Yang has been a foreign policy advisor to the Democratic Progressive leadership in the Legislative Yuan.