Prof. Dr. Tao Zhou is a Professor at the School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University. He received his PhD in Land and Real Estate Management from Renmin University of China in 2008. His research focuses on urban policy, urban economics, and urban and rural spatial governance. He also actively works on real estate research. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Urban Sustainable Construction and Management Committee of the China Society of Urban Economics and as a Council Member of the Chongqing Geographical Society. He was a visiting scholar at Texas A & M University from 2013 to 2014.