Yan Chunfeng – Wiki, Bio, Age, Wife, Net Worth

On August 2, 2019, Yan was sentenced to 10 years for bribery in Deyang Intermediate People’s Court.

Yan Chunfeng (Chinese: 严春风 ; born April 1968) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in southwest China’s Sichuan province. Yan was in the spotlight on May 10, 2018 after a conflict involving his daughter’s kindergarten teacher in Chengdu, Sichuan, was made known online. He was investigated by the Communist Party of China’s anti-graft agency in May 2018. Previously he served as Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Guang’an, the birthplace of China’s former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.

On May 10, 2018, Yan’s daughter beat her classmates and then was admonished by the kindergarten teacher. Yan’s wife Li Xiangyang oppressed the kindergarten teacher with privileges, causing public indignation on the Internet.

On May 18, 2018, Yan Chunfeng was put under investigation for alleged “serious violations of discipline and laws”, said one-sentence statement issued by the ruling Communist Party’s corruption watchdog body, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

On November 12, 2018, Yan Chunfeng had been expelled from the Communist Party and removed from the government over graft allegations and his case was handed over to prosecutors.

In November 2007 Yan Chunfeng and his wife Zhang Jing (张静 ; 張靜 ) divorced because of their discord. They have a son named Yan Hanlin (严瀚林 ; 嚴瀚林 ), who is studying at Chongqing Technology and Business University (CTBU).

In January 1999 he was appointed as assistant president of Chongqing Research Institute of Building Science (CRIBS), but having held the position for only seven months. In August of that same year, he was transferred to Yibin and entered politics as a local official. He was Deputy Communist Party Secretary and district head of Cuiping District from March 2005 to August 2006. In August 2006 he was transferred again to Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan province, where he served as chief engineer of Chengdu Municipal Planning Administration. In May 2010 he became deputy head of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, a position he held until December 2011. He was deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban Rural Development in November 2014, and held that office until July 2015. Then he was transferred to Guang’an, where he was Deputy Communist Party Secretary between November 2016 and May 2018.

Yan was born in Ruichang, Jiangxi in April 1968. After resuming the college entrance examination in 1984, he studied, and then taught, at what is now Kunming University of Science and Technology. In 1995 he entered Chongqing University, earning his doctor’s degree in Geotechnical Engineer.