Yan Zhiyong, Deputy General Manager and Chief Engineer of Sichuan Wenjun Distillery Co., Ltd., is a leading figure among China's young and middle-aged baijiu experts. He holds the titles of Chinese Baijiu Craft Master, National Baijiu Tasting Judge, and Expert Committee Member of the National Liquor Quality Inspection Center. Yan serves as a council member of the 7th Council of the China National Food Industry Association and a senior assessor certified by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
He is also a part-time professor at Sichuan University of Science & Engineering’s China Baijiu Institute, a member of the Sichuan Baijiu Experts Committee, a Sichuan Provincial Technical Expert, a Chengdu Craftsman, and one of the first vocational skill leaders recognized by the Chengdu Municipal Government. Yan founded Chengdu’s first Baijiu Skills Master Studio — Yan Zhiyong Baijiu Tasting and Blending Skills Master Studio. Honored as one of the inaugural “Chengdu Craftsmen” by the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and Government, he also serves as an expert committee member of the Doctoral Innovation Workstation of Qiongjiu Institute.
Furthermore, Yan is the officially designated representative inheritor of Sichuan Province’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Project: the Traditional Distilling Techniques of Distilled Liquor (Wenjun Liquor Traditional Brewing Techniques).
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