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Yuan Y.

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.

🇨🇳Xinxiang, China$20/hr100% JSSSince Sep 2026

Earnings and projects

MRR
$545

Last 6 months ÷ 2, the fewest it counts (since Oct 2026)

World#74,365 / 412k
🇨🇳Country#415 / 2,007
Revenue, last 30 days
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Read daily since Nov 3, under 30 days

Total earnings
$1.1k

Billed in all: $1.2k

World#385,885 / 412k
🇨🇳Country#1,909 / 2,007
Per project
$368

$363 in the last 6 months

World#211,955 / 412k
🇨🇳Country#923 / 2,007
Projects, last 6 months
3
67% fixed33% hourly
World#66,479 / 412k
🇨🇳Country#408 / 2,007
Projects in all
3
67% fixed33% hourly
World#304,140 / 412k
🇨🇳Country#1,397 / 2,007

Earnings, last 30 days

$1.2k+$12 earned since Nov 3Billed in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$1,180$1,190$1,200Nov 3Nov 5Nov 7

Tracked from Nov 3, 2026.

Skill rankings: Top 13% in 1688.com

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