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Biography Revised: 4/17/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Biography
Feng Yuanwei, male, Yi nationality, is a native of Xichang, Sichuan Province. He was born in 1930. In 1952, he graduated from Southwest china Institute for Ethnic Minorities. In 1954, he joined the CPC.
Feng has served as an associate professor and vice-president at his alma mater, Southwest China Institute for Ethnic Minorities. He was the secretary of the Ethnic Affairs Work Committee of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee. He was also deputy secretary of the committee. Feng was a member of the standing committee of the 7th, 8th, and 9th CPPCC National Committees.
Feng is also a translator of Lerteryi, a traditional epic of the Yi ethnic group.
He was elected Vice-Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles in 1996.
