Zhiyi Zhou is currently the Head of the Department of Planning, School of Architecture and Design, Nanchang University, Associate Professor, Master's Tutor, Standing Member of the Urban Renewal Committee of Jiangxi Civil Engineering and Architecture Society, and Director of Jiangxi Landscape Architecture Association. In 1995, he graduated from Nanchang University with a Bachelor's degree in Architecture, and in 2010, he graduated from Nanchang University with a Master's degree in Architectural Design and Theory, while in 2020, he was sent by the China Scholarship Council to study at Edinburgh University in the UK for one year. He has worked as a lecturer, associate professor and director of the teaching and research department in the School of Architecture and Engineering of Nanchang University. He has published a number of papers in national core Chinese journals, edited and co-edited several monographs, and presided over a number of architectural designs and urban and rural planning designs, which have reached a high level and won a number of provincial and ministerial awards for excellent design.