Yuan Y.
Sourcing & Procurement Specialist
I help overseas food brands and restaurant groups find, verify and buy from suppliers in China — with a focus on noodle and flour-based products, where most sourcing agents don't know what they're actually looking at. I've spent 17 years running my own businesses in China. Six of them in fresh noodle production: commissioning lines, formulating doughs, and fixing the problems that quietly eat margin — product turning sour within 2-3 days, texture drifting batch to batch, the wrong flour spec wrecking your yield. Before that, 11 years running a multi-brand home appliance dealership (Daikin, Siemens, Panasonic, Midea, Meiling) — which is where I learned to negotiate purchase terms, read a spec sheet, and tell a real factory from a reseller. WHAT I DO · Supplier sourcing & verification — not a list of Alibaba links. I check the business licence, whether it's a real factory or a trading company, and whether they can actually make your product at your volume. · Factory visits & pre-shipment inspection — on-site in Henan and the surrounding manufacturing belt, with photo documentation and a written report. · Price & terms negotiation — in Chinese, with the person who can actually say yes. I tell you what they said, not what they wanted you to hear. · Technical due diligence — I'll flag the problems in your spec before you wire a deposit, not after. BEYOND SOURCING I also run my own international-facing websites and produce my own video content — shooting, editing, subtitles, on-screen text and pacing, all done in-house. Two reasons that matters here: I've sat on your side of the table as a buyer sourcing from China, so I know what you need to see before you commit; and when a project calls for product video, supplier footage reviewed, or a content package put together, I don't have to hand it off. HOW I WORK I'm not a trading company and I don't take commission from factories. My fee is my fee, quoted up front. If a supplier is wrong for you, I'll tell you — even if it's the one I introduced you to. Based in Henan, China. Working English. On-site visits available across Henan, Shandong and the Yangtze River Delta for larger projects. Available for project-based or ongoing work. 30 hrs/week for ongoing or project-based work.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 2, the fewest it counts (since Oct 2026)
Read daily since Nov 3, under 30 days
Billed in all: $1,194$1.2k
$363 in the last 6 months
Earnings, last 30 days
Tracked from Nov 3, 2026.
Skill rankings: Top 13% in 1688.com
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