Zhou Liang, Ph.D./Postdoctoral Fellow, Professor, has been selected as a Young Flying Scholar of Gansu Province, a Leading Talent of Gansu Province, a Young Scholar of the Western Light of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a GIS Emerging Personality of Chinese Universities, a Chief Science Expert of Jincheng, one of the 100 Young Outstanding Talents of Lanzhou Jiaotong University, a core member of the Huang Danian-style Teacher Team of the Ministry of Education, and a recipient of the "May Fourth Youth Medal" of Gansu Province. He is currently the Deputy Director of the China Geographic State Monitoring Project Research Center and the Editorial Director of the international journal JGSA (ESCI-indexed). His main research areas are urban geography, urban and regional planning, the relationship between urbanization and ecological environment in arid areas, spatial planning and sustainable development, remote sensing and GIS applications, etc.