Tao Liu is assistant professor at College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University. He is also a core member of Center for Urban Future Research at Peking University. He obtained his PhD in geography at the University of Hong Kong. His research mostly focuses on urbanization, migration, urban land use, and metropolitan governance. He is the author of “China's Urban Construction Land Development: State, Market, and Peasantry in Action” published in Springer and has published two books and more than 80 articles in international and Chinese peer-reviewed journals. He has been the principle investigator of research projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key R&D Program of China, Ministry of Education of China, National Health Commission of China, etc. Dr. Liu is now committee member of the Urban Geography Specialty and the Population Geography Specialty of the Geographical Society of China, and Deputy Secretary General of the Planning Management Specialty of the Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management.