Editing Yang Liwei (section)

==After Shenzhou 5==
[[File:杨利伟航天功勋奖章.jpg|thumb|Yang's Space Meritorious Medal awarded by the [[Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]]]]
In a move similar to that taken by the [[Soviet Union]] with national space flight hero [[Yuri Gagarin]], an official decision to no longer assign him to future spaceflight missions was made.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}  Yang was promoted to Major General on 22 July 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2008/07/22/003580809.shtml|title =我国首位"太空人"杨利伟被授予少将军衔(图)|publisher=北方网|date=July 22, 2008|access-date=July 23, 2008}}</ref>

After the successful space flight of Shenzhou 5, Yang was given the position of vice-commander-in-chief of the astronauts system of China's crewed spaceflight project.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yang Liwei {{!}} Biography & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yang-Liwei|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>

Yang became an alternate of the [[Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]] at the 17th Party Congress in October 2007.

The [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] awarded the UNESCO Medal on Space Science to Yang in October 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-10/29/content_33842695.htm |title=Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei among first UNESCO Space Science Medal winners|website=China Daily |date=2017-10-29}}</ref>

Yang Liwei is the director of the [[China Manned Space Engineering Office]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=China readying for space station era: Yang Liwei - Xinhua {{!}} English.news.cn|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/08/c_137310103.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708103339/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/08/c_137310103.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 8, 2018|access-date=2021-04-02|website=www.xinhuanet.com}}</ref>