Gender: Female

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Bai nationality

Place of birth: Kunming, Yunnan

Date of birth: 1946

Occupation: Professor

Graduate school: Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (bachelor's degree)

Beijing Graduate School of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Postgraduate)

Title: researcher of internal medicine of traditional Chinese medicine (assessed at 1995)

Yang Li's father Duan Wei: Yang Li was born in a scholarly family. During the Republic of China, my father Duan Wei was selected by the government to study at Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a master's degree, and went to Europe, France, Britain, Germany and Tokyo for further study. He can speak five languages: Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese. After studying abroad for ten years, he served as acting director of Yunnan Yunnan-Vietnam Railway Bureau after returning to China. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression 1937, he served as the chief engineer of repairing the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway and made outstanding contributions to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. He was awarded a gold medal by the Yunnan government.