Yang Xiaoshan is now head of the Discipline Inspection Group sent to CASS by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and a member of the leading Party members’ group of CASS.

Yang started his career in January 1977 and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1979. He held some important posts while working at the Policy and Regulation Research Office in the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. In January 2016, he served as the director of the third Bureau of the Office of the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization.

In September 2018, Yang was deputy secretary general of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. He has been in his present position since December 2018.