Prof. Dr. Wei-Yew Chang holds a position as a professor and is currently working at the School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China. He holds a Ph.D. in resource economics from the School of Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He has served as a postdoctoral researcher, course instructor, and research associate in markets and economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a research consultant for the British Columbia government in Canada. His main research areas include forestry economics and policy assessment, cost and benefit analysis of natural resources and environmental management, agricultural and forestry economic management, green finance, etc. Currently, his main research work at Lanzhou University is socioeconomic analysis related to environmental protection, ecological resource conservation, investment development, and utilization. He is an expert on the think tank team of the Lanzhou New Area Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zone. He serves as an editor in economics for the journal “Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research”, published by Oxford University Press.  He also serves as an anonymous reviewer for many academic journals.