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World Bank official to join China’s US trade talks team
- Yang Yingming to take on international coordination role at Ministry of Finance as Beijing ‘tries to stop ties worsening’
- Yang known for openness and sense of humour, sources say
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China is adding a new face to its trade negotiation team by appointing its chief representative at the World Bank to head the Ministry of Finance’s international cooperation department, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Yang Yingming, who has been executive director for China at the World Bank in Washington since 2016, returns to the ministry months after Beijing and Washington completed a phase one agreement that brought a truce to their bitter trade war, although bilateral tensions remain at their worst in decades.
Yang, who is among a group of rising Chinese economic policymakers with international experience, told some of his colleagues recently in Washington that he was returning to China to work on G20 coordination and China-US trade talks, two of them said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Yang, the ministry, and the World Bank’s Beijing office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Yang, who studied English literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University and development economics at the University of Manchester in Britain, was also executive director for China at the Asian Development Bank until 2012, before moving to the finance ministry.
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