SUN Yufang is a project assistant at the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture's Center for Science and Technology, where she is responsible for the formulation of feasibility studies and reports, the coordination of foreign projects and the research and evaluation of the projects. Some of the projects she has worked on include the Cooperative Project on Rural Renewable Energy Development in China, between the ministry and the US Department of Energy; the UNDP/GEF Project on Energy Conservation and Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in Township and Village Enterprises in China; and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation project on Financial Incentive Policies on Biomass Technologies Commercialization.

Yufang has an MA in management from the China Agricultural University, where she participated in project management at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Development as a project assistant. She showed particular aptitude for project management using the participatory method. She has also studied many branches of economics, such as international trade, financial management and economic law.