Yan Hongyan

Yan Hongyan (Chinese: 阎红彦; pinyin: Yán Hóngyàn; 13 September 1909 – 8 January 1967) was a general of the People's Liberation Army of China.

Yan was born in Anding County, Shaanxi province in 1909.

1 secretary of the CCP's committee in Yunnan Province, No.1 political commissar of Kunming Military Region, and secretary of secretariat in the Southwest bureau of CCP.

In December 1963, he became the chairman of the Yunnan commission of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and also an alternative member of the 8th CCP Central Committee.

He ran afoul of the Maoist leadership in Beijing shortly after the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and committed suicide on 8 January 1967,[1] one of the most senior so-called "capitalist roaders" to do so.