Yan's Popular Education Movement in Dingxian County: Yan is the representative of Popular Education Movement. In 1950s and 1960s, he was invited to some developing countries for many times to introduce the experience of rural construction in China, and engaged in specific guidance work. He is known as "the father of international civilian education". Due to his great contribution to civilian education and rural construction, on the occasion of 1943 Copernicus' 400th birthday, representatives from more than 0/00 universities and scientific research institutions in the United States were selected as one of the "Top Ten Great Men with the Most Revolutionary Contributions in the World".
After World War II, China's rural construction movement was recognized and valued by the international community. Many countries pay attention to some practices of China's rural construction experiment in regional development.