Prof. Huasheng Zhu received his PhD in Science from Peking University in 2002 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University (2003–2005). He joined Beijing Normal University’s School of Geography and Remote Sensing Science as a faculty member (2005–2016), which was reorganized with other colleges and institutes to form the Faculty of Geographical Science at Beijing Normal University in 2016. His research topics mainly include economic geography, industrial cluster and local development, and innovation and enterpreneurship goegraphy.