Xiaofang Dong is a Professor and PhD supervisor at the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University. She received her PhD in Economics from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in 2012. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and completed joint doctoral training at the University of Connecticut in the United States. Her main research areas include urban economics, development economics, and transportation economics, within applied microeconomics. In recent years, she has served as principal investigator on several projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientist and General Programs), She has published multiple papers in leading international academic journals, including the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Regional Science, China Economic Review, and Economic Research Journal (Quarterly). Her research primarily focuses on transportation and the development of urban agglomerations, climate change and intra-urban spatial structure, urban environmental governance, and urban buildings. She has received several research- and teaching-related awards, including the Third Prize of the 14th Fujian Provincial Outstanding the the “Outstanding Individual in Humanities and Social Sciences Research Performance” award from Xiamen University.