| Office1: | Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Navy | ||||||
| Term Start1: | July 1995 | ||||||
| Term End1: | June 2003 | ||||||
| Predecessor1: | Zhou Kunren | ||||||
| Yang Huaiqing | |||||||
| Native Name: | 杨怀庆 | ||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||
| Birth Date: | February 1939 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Shouguang County, Shandong, China | ||||||
| Death Place: | Beijing, China | ||||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Serviceyears: | 1958–2003 | ||||||
| Rank: | Admiral | ||||||
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Yang Huaiqing (; February 1939 – 12 December 2012) was an admiral in the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) of China. He was a member of the 15th and 16th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] He was a delegate to the 8th National People's Congress.[1]
Yang was born in Shouguang County (now Shouguang), Shandong, in February 1939.[1] He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in January 1958, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in May 1960.[1] He was assigned to the East Sea Fleet in August 1970.[1] He moved up the ranks to become deputy head of Cadre Division of the Political Department in September 1981 and head in June 1983.[1] He became director of the Political Department of the in August 1985, and two years later entered the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] In January 1988, he became deputy political commissar of the, rising to political commissar six months later.[1] He served as deputy director of the PLA Navy Political Department in June 1990, and two years later promoted to the director position.[1] He was promoted to deputy political commissar of the PLA Navy in December 1993.[1] In July 1995, he was promoted again to become political commissar.[1] He was removed from public office and forced into retirement alongside Shi Yunsheng in May 2003 due to the military disaster of Chinese submarine 361.[2] [3] [4] He died of an illness in Beijing, at the age of 73.[5]
He attained the rank of rear admiral (shaojiang) in July 1990, vice admiral (zhongjiang) in July 1994, and admiral (shangjiang) in June 2000.[1]