Also within that year he graduated to the Shandong's senior team and played within the top tier of Chinese football.
[1] This then saw him promoted to managing the senior team of Shandong Taishan where he won the Chinese FA Cup in 1995.
Yin was praised as a shrewd tactician and for encouraging many members of that team to subsequently graduate to the national side.
Yin became the last minute care-taker coach for the Chinese U-23 team, which had already qualified for the Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics as hosts.
However, due to his short time, he couldn't implement his ideas in the team, and China were eliminated within the group stages.