Huang Yong (Chinese: 黄勇, born 26 May 1978 in Changchun, Jilin) is a Chinese international former football midfielder who played for Bayi Football Team, Shanghai COSCO Sanlin and Tianjin Songjiang while also representing China in the 2000 Asian Cup.
Huang Yong was born in Changchun, Jilin while his father was serving for the Chinese military.
His family would settle within Shenyang and he would join the Shenyang youth team where he was selected to participate in a five-year training programme sponsored by Jianlibao to be sent to Brazil for a newly organized youth football team.
[1] On his return to China he would join top tier and military affiliated Bayi Football Team in the 1998 league season.
[4] Huang Yong came out of retirement when he joined third tier football club Tianjin Songjiang in the 2009 league season as a player/ coach and was reunited with his former teammate at Jianlibao Youth, Zhang Xiaorui.