Dr. Lei Jiang is an associate professor at the College of Geographical Sciences and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University. He graduated from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 2015 with a PhD in Economic Geography. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and an associate professor at the School of Economics at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics. He is mainly engaged in research on resource and environmental economic geography, regional sustainable development, applied spatial econometric modeling, and spatiotemporal data analysis. He has published more than 60 core papers in Chinese and English. He has presided over three provincial and ministerial projects. He has published a textbook “Applied Spatial Econometrics”. He is a member of the Youth Editorial Committee of Tropical Geography and an anonymous reviewer for core Chinese academic journals such as Geographical Research, Geographical Science, Progress in Geographical Sciences, Resource Science, Tourism Tribune, Tropical Geography, Journal of Anhui Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), Systems Engineering–Theory and Practice, Operations Research and Management, Environmental Science, and Nanjing University Business Review.