Ye Guangfu (Chinese: 叶光富; pinyin: Yè Guāngfù; born September 1980)[2] is a Chinese fighter pilot and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.

[3] Ye was born in a rural village Shuangliu County, Sichuan to an ordinary family of farmers in September 1980.

[4] His father died when Ye was 8, and he helped with farm work from childhood.

[4] As a People's Liberation Army Air Force pilot, Ye spent four years as an instructor and four years as a jet fighter pilot and amassed a total of 1,100 hours of flight time.

On 28 May 2024, Ye Guangfu along with his Shenzhou 18 crew mate Li Guangsu carried out China's longest spacewalk yet, spending about 8.5 hours on tasks including the installation of the space station's space debris protection device.