Director, Centre for Regional Agriculture and Rural Development, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor of Beijing Normal University

Professor of Geography. PhD supervisor, and Director of the Centre for Regional Agriculture and Rural Development (CRARD), Director general of Center for Assessment and Research on Targeted Poverty Alleviation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（CAS）; Professor of University of CAS; Chair, IGU Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering; Director-general, China Urban-Rural Development Think Tank Alliance; Yangtze Scholar Distinguished Professor (2012-), Beijing Normal University; Leader of the Expert Group, The Third-Party Evaluation of the National Targeted Poverty Alleviation. His major areas of research are regional agriculture and rural development, urbanization and rural revitalization. So far he as the principal investigator has undertaken 70 research projects sponsored by NSFC, CAS, MLR and the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has published 450 scientific papers, 130 of which have appeared in SCI, SSCI journals like Nature, Land Use Policy, and Journal of Rural Studies, and sixteen books. In August 2017, he published the paper “Revitalize the world’s countryside” in Nature. He has submitted 21 advisory reports to the Central Government, most of which have been transformed into government policy-making and rural planning strategies. He has received the TWAS Prize for 2018, and nine prizes of Sciences and Technology Advancement Award. He was a recipient of the countrywide outstanding scientists and technologists in 2012, first prize on academy-local government cooperative award, CAS in 2011, outstanding science and technology achievement Award, CAS in 2009.