Career
Kan began in horse training in 1978 and has trained a Hong Kong record of over 830 winners and the winners of 100 Cup races. He is an indigenous inhabitant (Hakka) born in Sheung Shui in Northern New Territories. He ran for the Legislative Council elections in 1995, 1998 and 2000 but was not elected.
Kan was convicted in November 2011 of electoral corruption in the village representative election in 2011.
Kan offered Hong Kong$130,000 to a village representative to vote for him as Sheung Shui Rural Committee chairman, which carries ex-officio membership of the Heung Yee Kuk.