Author profileUpdated 31 August 2026

Bao L. Zhou, who also goes by Derrick Zhou.

Every page on Currawong is written, checked and answered by one person: me. I run the China-side verification desk from China, prepare every company check myself, and sign email as either name. This page shows who is behind the byline, with records you can check.

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A byline you can actually check.

Author claims are cheap. Each item below links to a record held by a third party that I do not control: a data repository, a package registry, a code host. You can open every one of them yourself.

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What I do here

I operate Currawong's China-side verification desk: reading Chinese official company records for international buyers, preparing every paid check personally, and writing the buyer guides on this site. I work in both Chinese and English. The records this site deals with are Chinese-language primary sources: company registration entries, the Unified Social Credit Code, business scope text. Reading them in the original is the job.

How pages are researched, what counts as evidence and how corrections work is set out in the editorial policy. What a paid check can and cannot establish is in the trust centre.

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Verifiable record

Third-party places where my work exists outside this site. Each was opened and checked on 31 August 2026:

RecordWhere it livesWhat it shows
Study dataset, archivedDOI 10.5281/zenodo.21867383 (Zenodo)The data behind this site's studies. Anyone can download it and re-check the numbers.
Study dataset, archivedDOI 10.5281/zenodo.21897194 (Zenodo)A second archived dataset, same open terms.
Author profileFigshareStudy material from this site, archived under my name.
Open-source USCI validatorchina-usci on npm · source on GitHubA checksum tool for China's Unified Social Credit Code, the ID at the centre of the checks this site describes.
Professional profileLinkedInThe same person, under the same two names.

A listing proves I wrote that item. It does not prove the quality of any one supplier check; the editorial policy keeps those two claims apart.

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Boundaries

I never endorse a supplier. If a supplier shows you a Currawong report as proof that we vetted them, that is a misuse of it. What protects you if I am unavailable is stated on the About page, together with the registered operating entity behind the site.

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Contact

Email hello@currawongweb.com. I answer it myself, in English or Chinese. For corrections to any page, use the process in the editorial policy.