Teaching Positions

• 1999 - Now, Professor, Director of Department of Public Management, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University; Director of Think-tank for sustainable development and new urbanization, Tongji University
• 1986 - 1999, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Director of Department of Social Sciences, Tongji University
• 1979.08 - 1983.8 Lecturer, Department of Geology ,Qinghai University

Consulting Activities & Management Activities

• Member, Global Agenda Council of World Economic Forum（WEF）
• Expert，Management Division of National Social Science Foundation, China
• Expert, Management Division of Social Science Research Council, Ministry of Education
• Expert, Sustainable Development and Environment Committee of Experts, Ministry of
• Construction
• Expert, Innovative City Committee of Experts, Ministry of Science and Technology
• sustainable development advisor, Expo 2010 in Shanghai
• decision-making consultation advisor, the Shanghai Municipal Government
• Expert, Shanghai Municipal Government Urban Planning Council
• Expert,  Eleventh Five-Year ,Twelfth Five-Year and Thirteenth Five-Year Plans， Planning Council of Shanghai Municipal Government
• 12, invited to give speech for the Political Bureau of Central Committee of CCP on “ the new trends of global development from the perspective of Shanghai World Expo”

International Experience

• 2005.02－2005.08, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, US
• 1994.08－1995.07, Visiting Research Fellow, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
• 2014 - 2016, Council Member,Circular Economy and Governance of Sustainability,GAC of
• WEF,Schwitzerland
• 2015.07, Invited Keynote Speaker, Conference of Climate Change, UNESCO,Paris,
• 2014.07,Invited Keynote Speaker,Forum for China’s Sustainable Urbanization,UN, NewYork
• 2012.06,Invited Keynote speaker,ISEE Conference,Rio,Brazil
• 2011.09, Invited Keynote Speaker, WRF Forum, Schwitzerland
• 2011.05, Invited Keynote Speaker, EU Green Economy Seminar, Brussels
• 2009.02, Invited expert, UNEP Green New Deal Project, New York
• 2008.08, Invited Keynote Speaker, The international ecological economics conference, Kenya, Nairobi

RESEARCH FIELD &TEACHING INTERESTS

• Sustainable Development and Ecological Economics
• Urban and Regional Development
• Public Service and Public Private Partnership
• CSR and Sustainable Business

RESEARCH

 Sponsored Research Projects

• Carbon Productivity in terms of Steady State Economics, Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2012-2015
• Indicator Studies on Low Carbon Development of China, Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC), 2012-2014
• Green Economy Workshop, Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2013
• Theory, Methods and Application of Resource Productivity, Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2007-2009
• The Theory and practice of Circular Economy, State Education Minister Philosophy and Social Sciences Tackled Projects, 2006-2010
• Policy Study about Shanghai’s Low Carbon City Development，Shanghai Municipal Government Decision-Making and Consultancy Research Project，2009
• Expo 2010 Shanghai and the Research of the Quality of Life, Shanghai Municipal Government Decision-Making and Consultancy Research Project, 2004
• Study in Policy of Regional Planning in Yangtze Delta Metropolis Based on the Polycentric Governance, Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Foundation, 2004

Selected Publications

Papers

• Research on Ecological Wellbeing Performance and Its Relationship With Economic
• Growth, China Population, Resources and Environment,2014(9)
• An Embedding Model of Sustainable Development and Its Policy Importance for
• China’s Development Transition, Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014(1)
• Deepen Theoretical Studies of Circular Economy under the background of