Dr. Zhang Ying is a professor of resource and environmental economics in School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, an affiliate professor in Colorado State University, and an editor of the International Journal of Green economy (IJGE) at Oxford University and an editorial board of Global Economics Science of ScienceGate. He got a PhD from Beijing Forestry University in 1999, and studied as a post-doc. in Korea University in 2000. In 2003, he was a visiting professor in forest economics, Taiwan University of Taibei, Taiwan. In 2007-2008, he was a Fulbright visiting professor at Yale University, USA. In 2014-2015, he was a visiting professor in Giessen University, Germany. His major is applied economics, and nearly 300 papers and 56 books by a sole author and co-authors have been published in this field. There are 8 provincial and ministerial outstanding scientific and technological achievement awards in China, 5 international awards, and 6 excellent paper awards have been earned from 1999 to 2024. Some studies have had a certain impact at home and abroad, and two papers on forest carbon sink value accounting have been included in the Global Green Accounting Think Tank. 2 papers were selected as TOP 10 "highly cited and highly downloaded" papers by CNI and China Scientific Literature Metrology Evaluation Research Center in 2022-2024, and were selected as "Scientific Chinese" candidates in 2017 in China.