Doctor of Management of Jilin University in China, Post-doctor of Education of Northeast Normal University in China, Professor of Changchun University in China, visiting scholar of the University of Western Sydney in Australia,master tutor. The research direction is logistics and supply chain management, higher education. In recent years, Yan is the leader over 10 projects, including 1 national social science fund education project , 3 projects of Department of Science and Technology of Jilin Province, and more than RMB 500,000 of project funds. Yan has published more than 40 academic papers, 15 of which were published in CSSCI journals, important journals and core journals as the first author. 3 books were published.