Editing Yang Liwei (section)

== Early life and education ==
Yang Liwei was born in [[Suizhong County]], [[Huludao]], [[Liaoning]].<ref name="chinadaily-jan24" >{{cite news|last=Guang|first=Yang|title=Mission Possible for Yang Liwei|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2011-01/24/content_11904854.htm|access-date=14 December 2013|newspaper=[[China Daily]]|date=24 January 2011}} {{closed_access}}</ref> His mother was a teacher and his father was an accountant at a state agricultural firm.<ref name=st-yang>{{cite news|last=Ong|first=Hwee Hwee|title=Fighter pilot Yang - average student, superb self-control.|url=http://global.factiva.com/aa/?ref=STIMES0020031016dzag0000v&pp=1&fcpil=en&napc=S&sa_from=|access-date=14 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Straits Times]]|date=16 October 2003}} {{closed_access}}</ref>  Yang Liwei married Zhang Yumei with whom they had a son together. Zhang Yumei was a part of the People's Liberation Army and was a teacher in China's Space Program.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yang Liwei {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yang-liwei|access-date=2021-04-25|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Yang Liwei|url=http://www.astronautix.com/y/yangliwei.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228051906/http://astronautix.com/y/yangliwei.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 28, 2016|access-date=2021-04-25|website=www.astronautix.com}}</ref>

In 1983, he enlisted for the [[People's Liberation Army]] (PLA) and was admitted to the [[Air Force Aviation University|Air Force Second Flight Academy]] ({{Lang-zh|s=空军第二飞行学院|labels=no}}), graduating in 1987 with a bachelor's degree.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cheng |first=Jinyu |date=2016-04-11 |title=陽痿：中国进入太空的第一人 |url=https://www.huaxia.com/zt/tbgz/16-012/4798032.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207170834/https://www.huaxia.com/zt/tbgz/16-012/4798032.html |archive-date=2016-12-07 |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=华夏经纬网}}</ref> He participated in the screening process for astronauts in 1996.<ref>Seedhouse, Erik (2009). "The New Space Race: China vs. USA".  Springer. {{ISBN|144190879X}}.</ref> In the PLAAF, he logged 1,350 hours of flight time as a fighter pilot before he went to space training.<ref name="chinadaily-jan24" />

Yang entered [[Tsinghua University]] in Beijing for [[Postgraduate education|doctoral studies]] in 2004 and received a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in [[Management]] in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-01-27 |title=杨利伟清华读博士_新闻中心_新浪网 |url=http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2006-01-27/02478091225s.shtml |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221205014719/http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2006-01-27/02478091225s.shtml |archive-date=2022-12-05 |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=news.sina.com.cn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Xinhua |date=2010-01-26 |title=我国首批航天员被清华大学授予工程硕士学位_中国载人航天官方网站 |url=http://www.cmse.gov.cn/xwzx/zhxw/201001/t20100126_22234.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221205015624/http://www.cmse.gov.cn/xwzx/zhxw/201001/t20100126_22234.html |archive-date=2022-12-05 |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=China Manned Space Agency}}</ref>