Yang Taibo, male, Han nationality, is a native of Ningxiang County, Hunan province. He was born in 1951, and joined the CPC in 1971. He served as secretary-general of the Yiyang Provincial CPC Committee until 1991 and general secretary of the Huaihua CPC Committee in Hunan province until 2000. In that same year he was promoted to secretary-general of the Hunan Provincial Government, and he became vice-governor of Hunan province in 2003. He was a member of the 8th Hunan Provincial CPC Committee. In 2012, he became Deputy Director of the Hunan Provincial People's Congress.