Urbanization and Production of Space

Chao Ye, male, is a professor and Ph.D. tutor at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University. He is also a "Young Changjiang Scholar" of the Ministry of Education of China and a distinguished professor at Northwest Normal University and Anhui Jianzhu University. He is mainly engaged in urban and rural development and the production of space, history and methods of geography and cultural geography. He won the second prize of the 13th & 12th Shanghai Decision-making Consultation Achievement Award and the 13th National Youth Geographic Science and Technology Award of China Geographical Society. He has published over 130 papers in famous international journals such as Nature, Science Bulletin, Habitat International, Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Rural Studies as well as some Chinese flag journals. He has published the English monograph A Theory and History of Rural?urban Governance in China, which won the second prize of the 13th Outstanding Achievements of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Shanghai. He published a Chinese translation of the classic book Social Justice and the City.

Liang Zhuang, male, is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University. He is mainly engaged in sustainable urbanization and the production of space, regional development and urban?rural governance, and geographic information science. He is a member of the Geographical Society of China and a member of the Association of American Geographers. In recent years, he has published 18 papers in Land Use Policy, Journal of Geographical Sciences, Scientometrics, Acta Geographica Sinica as well as other authoritative journals at home and abroad. He has presided over and participated in more than 20 related important scientific research projects. He won the second prize of the 13th & 12th Shanghai Decision-making Consultation Achievement Award and the National Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates in China and other important awards and honors.