Feng was born in August 1946 in Longzhong Village, Dacheng County, Hebei Province. He graduated from Dacheng Middle School in 1965 and was admitted to Beijing Agricultural University, majoring in soil agricultural chemistry. After graduating in August 1970, he was assigned to Zhanhua County, Qinghai Province, to engage in agricultural research.[3]
He joined the Chinese Communist Party in March 1978. Over the next decade, he served as technician at the agricultural technology extension station and the county agricultural research institute, deputy director of the institute, and deputy head of the county agriculture and forestry section. In February 1982, he became deputy director of the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau of Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and in July 1983, he was appointed vice governor of the prefecture.[4]
In August 1986, Feng was transferred to Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where he successively served as member of the Standing Committee of the prefectural Party committee, executive vice governor, executive deputy Party secretary, and prefectural Party secretary.[5] During this period, he concurrently served as Party secretary of Golmud, a key transportation hub on the Qinghai–Tibet Highway.[6]
In May 1994, Feng was appointed member of the Standing Committee of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and secretary of its Political and Legal Affairs Commission. He later became deputy Party secretary of Qinghai and concurrently headed the provincial Rural Work Leading Group and the Qinghai Provincial Party School.[7][8]
In April 2003, after 33 years on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, Feng was transferred to Jiangsu Province to serve as deputy Party secretary and concurrently as president of the Jiangsu Provincial Party School.[9] In November 2006, due to age and a reduction in the number of deputy provincial Party secretary positions, he became member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.[10][11]
Feng was a delegate to the 16th and 17th National Congresses of the Chinese Communist Party and was elected a member of the 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.[12]