Yang Dezhong (Chinese: 杨德中; 1 December 1923 – 12 November 2020) was a general in the People's Liberation Army of China who served as party secretary of Tsinghua University from 1970 to 1972 and director of the Central Guard Bureau from 1978 to 1994.

Yang was born into an intellectual family in Xi'an, Shaanxi, on 1 December 1923, while his ancestral home in Weinan.

He enlisted in the Eighth Route Army in 1938, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the same year.

[1][2] He was political commissar of the Central Guard Regiment in June 1953, and held that office until February 1974.

During the Cultural Revolution in July 1968, he marched the Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team [zh] to stabilize the situation of Tsinghua University.