Professor Jianping Gu currently serves at the School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, where she is Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Head of the Department of Real Estate Development and Management. She also holds concurrent appointments as Council Member of the China Land Economics Society, Council Member of the Chongqing Geographical Society, and Committee Member of the City Planning Institute of Japan. Her research centers on regional development and urban governance. She has led more than ten national and provincial-level research projects, including two funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Professor Gu has achieved a strong record of scholarly contributions, with over thirty publications as first or corresponding author in internationally renowned journals. Her work has appeared in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (a Nature portfolio journal), Landscape and Urban Planning, Cities, and other top-ranked journals in the field of urban studies.