Yang Shih-chien

Yang earned a masters of electrical engineering and a doctorate from Northwestern University.{{cite news |title=The New Cabinet |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4&post=4406 |work=Free China Review |date=1 August 1996}}

Yang is a member of the Kuomintang.{{cite news |author1=Tsering Namgyal |title=Asia starts again from scratch |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2001/03/18/0000078114 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=18 March 2001}} He was director-general of the Industrial Development Bureau prior to serving as political deputy minister of economic affairs from 1992 through 1994.{{cite news |title=Automate Or Stagnate |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=8,12,29,32,33,45&post=13069 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Free China Review |date=1 November 1991}}{{cite news |title=A GATT-Fly in The Rice Bowl |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?post=36692&unit=29,45 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Free China Review |date=1 April 1994}} Yang then led the Hsinchu Science Park Administration. In 1996, Yang was named a minister without portfolio. Following his retirement from politics in 2000, Yang founded the Global Strategic Investment Fund in March 2001.{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Kevin |title=Former officials face fines |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2002/12/31/0000189215 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=31 December 2002}} The Taiwan Solidarity Union suspected Yang of working in China, and disclosed the allegations in 2002.{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Miao-Jung |last2=Low |first2=Stephanie |title=TSU names 11 as security threats |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/03/13/0000127475 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=13 March 2002}} Subsequently, Yang's Global Strategic Investment Fund was fined by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.{{cite news |last1=Huang |first1=Joyce |title=MOEA levies fines on 4 companies for investing in China |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2003/01/19/0000191537 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=19 January 2003}} In 2010, Yang became the chairman of the China Prosper Investment and Management Company, based in Tianjin.{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=George |last2=Hung |first2=Faith |title=Taiwan ex-govt official now private equity boss in China |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/taiwan-china-fund/taiwan-ex-govt-official-now-private-equity-boss-in-china-idUSTOE62O02B20100325 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Reuters |date=24 March 2010}} Republished as: {{cite news |title=Ex-MOEA official heads Chinese fund manager |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2010/03/29/2003469175 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=29 March 2010}} Yang later served as national policy adviser to President Ma Ying-jeou.{{cite news |title=EDITORIAL: Action must be taken on tax evasion |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2016/04/25/2003644747 |access-date=20 June 2020 |work=Taipei Times |date=25 April 2016}}

Yang is a nephew of Rong Yiren, who served as vice president of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 1998.

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