While gentle in speech, Yang is very strict with both his subordinates and himself. Diagnosed with colon cancer on the eve of the last county magistrate election, he was again putting in 15-hour workdays soon after surgery.
雖然言詞溫雅，但他對部屬或自己都非常嚴格，儘管上次縣長選舉前夕檢驗出罹患大腸腫瘤，手術切除後不久就恢復了每日 15 個小時的工作量。