China Vitae

Biography

Yan Kai, male, Han nationality, is a native of Minhou, Fujian Province. He graduated from Jiaotong University.

Yan spent most of his career as a professor at Hehai University. He studied seashore dynamics and seashore dynamic physiognomy. He also participated in the renovation and expansion work of Xingang Harbor of Tanggu (now Tianjin Xingang), contributing to the research and solving of a severe back-silting problem in the harbor.

Additionally, Yan presided over the controlling work of the Yangtze River mouth. He twice led working teams to Guangdong Province for extended survey and research on holistic planning and comprehensive control of Zhujiang Delta. Yan later participated in solving complicated scientific and technological problems of Gezhouba Dam water works multi-purpose project and research argumentation work of the Three Gorges project.

Yan won numerous awards for his research and later became honorary president of Hehai University. Yan was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1955.