Yang Chengxu is a senior Chinese diplomat to German-speaking countries.
[1] In 1952, he received his bachelor's degree in German Literature from Fudan University and started to work for the All-China Journalists Association.
In 1962, Yang was sent to the Xinhua News Agency-founded Foreign Languages Institute to take advanced training courses.
[2] In 1973, he joined the Chinese Foreign Ministry and served successively as Secretary, Counsellor and Minister-Counsellor in Chinese Embassies in Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic.
From May 1993, he succeeded Du Gong as President of the China Institute of International Studies and was relieved from the position in November 2001.