Tong Sheng Li is a professor and PhD supervisor at Northwest University. He is also the chair of the Shaanxi Provincial Research Institute at Northwestern University. His research interests are focus on innovation diffusion and development of agricultural science and technology, human–land relationship geographical systems and their optimal regulation, urban-rural transformation and urban-rural integrated development, and land and space planning and management. He has presided over, or participated in, more than 30 key and facet projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, major and facet projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China, sub-projects of the 973 Program, the university doctoral program, and projects of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Program. He has published more than 200 papers on peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, coedited 10 books, and won 4 provincial and ministerial level science and technology awards. He is the corresponding author of this paper.