He served as the Minister of Supervision, as well as Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the top anti-corruption body of the party.
He was then admitted to the precision instruments department at Tianjin University, where he studied on-and-off until 1968; during this phase he also took time off because of the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 which caused chaos in academic institutions.
[2] In 1986, He Yong's profile was forwarded to party General Secretary Hu Yaobang on recommendation of then Organization Department head Wei Jianxing.
He Yong was named deputy head of the Organization Department, in charge of performance reviews of officials at vice-minister level and above.
He left the department to join his patron Wei Jianxing at the newly established Ministry of Supervision, becoming vice minister.