Haijun Bao is currently the Dean of the School of Land and Spatial Planning, Urban College, Zhejiang University. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 2005 with a doctorate. From 2005 to 2020, he worked at the Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, and from 2020 to 2021, he served as the deputy director of the office of Geological Exploration Management. His main research interests are land development and utilization, government regulation, urban development, and urban management. He is also a communication review expert of the National Nature Fund, the executive director of the Preparatory Committee for set pair analysis and contact mathematics of the China Artificial Intelligence Society, the executive director of the Zhejiang Land Society, and the director of the Zhejiang Enterprise Management Research Association.