Yang Jie, a native of Dali, Yunnan, is a general of the Chinese Army. On 1949, he was assassinated in Hong Kong by the military commander under the command of Chiang Kai-shek.

General Yang Jie has no biological children, and his only heir, Yang Zhaohu, is Yang Mao's second son, that is, Yang Jie's brother.

1950 10 Under the care of our party and government, Yang Zhaohu, Yang Jie's successor, made a special trip to Hong Kong to cook and bury the body of General Yang Jie, transported the general's ashes back to Kunming, Yunnan, and then built Yang Jie's tomb in Xishan, Kunming.