Yonghua Li is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Regional and Urban Planning, College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University; deputy director of the Department of Regional and Urban–Rural Planning, and deputy director of the Landscape Architecture Research Center; visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; visiting scholar at Kiel University, Germany; and director of the China Urban Planning Society. She is a member of the Academic Committee on Urban Ecological Planning of the China Urban Planning Society, a member of the River Basin Spatial Planning Branch of the China Urban Planning Society, and a deputy director of the Academic Committee on Small Towns of the Zhejiang Provincial Land and Spatial Planning Society.