Prof. Dr. Songqing Jin joined the faculty at the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, in 2007. His research interests are in the broad areas of microeconomics and international agricultural development. The main part of his research has been focused on rural land tenure and rural land market issues in developing countries. He completed his M.S. in agriculture at Zhejiang University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, USA, in 2004. His past and current research also concerns other development issues such as rural non-farm development, rural labor migration, rural governance, and the economics of gender inequality. He has conducted fieldwork and other research activities in East Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa over the past several years. Before coming to MSU, he was a research economist at the World Bank.