The Yang Feng mentioned in the news report is an engineer.
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杨 is a top-ten Chinese surname and 锋 ("sharp edge; vanguard") is a confident masculine given name — think of 先锋 (xiānfēng, "vanguard"). Not to be confused with 杨峰 (Yáng Fēng, same pinyin, different character meaning "peak"), which is equally common.