Zhong Yang (Chinese: 钟阳; born January 1972) is a former Chinese politician of Bouyei ethnicity who spent her entire career in her home-province Guizhou. She was investigated by China's top anti-graft agency in April 2023. Previously she served as governor of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
Zhong joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in May 1994, and got involved in politics in July 1994, when she was assigned to the Organization Department of Guiyang Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China.[2] In June 2005, she became secretary General of the CCP Guiyang Municipal Committee.[2] She became magistrate of Xifeng County in October 2011, and then party secretary, the top political position in the county, beginning in January 2014.[2] She was appointed secretary of the Party Working Committee of Guiyang National Economic and Technological Development Zone in October 2015, concurrently serving as secretary of CCP Huaxi District Committee and member of the Party Working Committee of Gui'an New Area.[2] She was vice governor of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in December 2018 and subsequently executive vice governor in December 2019.[2] She was elevated to governor in March 2021.[3]
PB Former member of the Politburo; PLA Also a military official; CDI Member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection or affiliates 1For details on the civil service ranks of officials, please see Civil Service of the People's Republic of China; 2Army generals listed have attained at least the rank of Major General, which usually enjoys the same administrative privileges as a civilian official of sub-provincial rank.