Yaobin Liu is vice president of Nanchang University and a distinguished professor of "Changjiang Scholars" of the Ministry of Education. He is a leading talent of the Ten Thousand People Program, Thousands Talents Plan, and a national "Four Batches" talent. He is a candidate of the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, a candidate of the "Jiangxi 555 Project" leading talent training of Jiangxi Province, and a candidate of major discipline and technology leader training of Jiangxi Province. He is an expert of the subject planning evaluation group of the National Social Science Foundation of China, and a communication evaluation expert and master supervisor of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has teaching experience in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. He has published 152 papers in authoritative international and domestic academic journals such as Modelling and China Industrial Economics, including 32 SSCI/SCI/EI papers, and has published 10 academic works. He has presided over and completed 10 national projects, including 2 key projects of the National Social Science Fund, and 8 projects of national ministries and commissions. He has won eight provincial awards, including one first prize of the 16th Social Science Research Outstanding Achievement of Jiangxi Province and one first prize of the 14th batch of undergraduate teaching achievement of Jiangxi Province.