Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006
Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005
Zhongguo Gongchandang Lijie Zhongyang Weiyuan Dacidian, 1921-2003
Beijing: Zhonggong dangshi chubanshe 2004
Biography Revised: 5/23/2003
Career Data Updated: 2/24/2009
Biography
Ye Xuanping, male, Han nationality, was born in 1924 in Meixian County, Guangdong Province. He is a son of the late Marshal Ye Jianying. He joined the CPC in 1945, the same year he began college study in Yan'an. He continued engineering and machine-
building studies at Qinghua University and in the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
Ye served in engineering and scientific administrative capacities in Shenyang and Beijing before returning to his native place in the 1980s and becoming successively vice-governor of Guangdong Province, mayor of Guangzhou, deputy secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, and governor of Guangdong Province.
Ye was a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th CPC Central Committees and a member of the 5th NPC and 6th NPC. He was vice-chairman of the 7th, 8th and 9th CPPCC National Committees.
