Chen Yaobang (Chinese: 陈耀邦; pinyin: Chén Yàobāng; born December 1935) is a retired politician and former Minister of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China.
Chen later served as a teaching assistant at Huazhong Agricultural Institute.
[1] Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party in March 1982.
In 1993, Chen became vice chairman of the State Planning Commission, and in 1997 he began serving concurrently as Minister of Forestry.
Chen later became a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and vice chairman of the CPPCC Economics Committee.