She added a second gold in the women's 1000 m short track at the same Games and has also won two silver and a bronze medal.

After 2003 World Championships, Yang took time off competing, but came back in 2004–2005 season in lead-up to 2006 Winter Olympics where she won the bronze medal in 1000m race.

In 2013, Yang co-founded the Feiyang Skating Centre in Shanghai, a new double-rink facility with an Olympic-sized rink upstairs and a recreational-sized rink downstairs, built to promote ice sports in China.

In 2021, Yang became a high profile supporter of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.

She amplifies Chinese social media content highlighting the power of sport to transform the lives of people fleeing conflict and persecution.