Editing Yang Liwei (section)

{{Short description|Chinese major general and taikonaut (born 1965)}}
{{for|the women's basketball player|Yang Liwei (basketball)}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Yang (surname)|Yang]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox astronaut
|name        = Yang Liwei
|image       = Yang Liwei.jpg
|caption     = Yang in September 2011
|type        = [[People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps|PLAAC]] [[astronaut]]
|status      = Retired
|birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1965|6|21|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Suizhong]], [[Huludao]], [[Liaoning]], China
|previous_occupation = {{Flagdeco|China|air force}} [[People's Liberation Army Air Force|PLAAF]] [[fighter pilot]]
|current_occupation = Vice Chief Designer, [[China Manned Space Engineering]]
|rank        = [[Major general]]
|selection   = [[List of astronauts by selection#1998|Chinese Group 1]]
|time        = 21 hours, 22 minutes, 45 seconds
|mission     = [[Shenzhou 5]]
|insignia    = 
|alma_mater=[[Air Force Aviation University]] ([[Bachelor of Engineering|BEng]])<br>[[Tsinghua University]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])|native_name={{nobold|杨利伟}}}}

'''Yang Liwei''' ({{zh|t=楊利偉|s=杨利伟
|p=|l=}}; born 21 June 1965) is a Chinese [[major general]], former [[military pilot]], and former [[Astronaut|taikonaut]] of the [[People's Liberation Army]].

In October 2003, Yang became the first person sent into space by the [[Chinese space program]]. This mission, [[Shenzhou 5]], made China the third country to independently send humans into space. He is currently a vice chief designer of [[China Manned Space Engineering]].