Prof. Dr. Ping Zhang is an associate professor and a graduate student tutor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, a visiting scholar at Iowa State University and Zhejiang University, and a distinguished consultant to the Jiaxing Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau. She holds a master’s degree in architecture and a doctorate in human geography. She mainly focuses on sustainable urban and rural development and cultural heritage protection. She has presided over and completed one National Natural Science Foundation project and two provincial and ministerial-level projects. She is currently presiding over two provincial and ministerial-level projects. She has participated in the completion of five national, provincial, and ministerial-level projects. She has published more than ten papers in core journals at home and abroad as the first author and corresponding author.