Tiyan Shen is Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of School of Government, Peking University. He is also Executive Dean of the PKU Institute of Urban Governance and Vice Dean of Beijing Development Institute, PKU. He also served as a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China, vice president of China Regional Science Association and chief expert of the Major Project of China National Social Science Foundation. His research concentrates on urban planning and urban governance, computable industrial cluster theory, spatial demography, spatial econometrics and spatially integrated social sciences. He has published more than 130 academic papers in international and domestic core journals and more than 10 monographs and translated books. He has also hosted many national projects, obtained many national invention patents and software works and won 5 important awards.

Xin Lao is Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing. She received her Ph.D. of regional economics from School of Government, Peking University, had been a Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) in Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow in School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on China’s internal migration and urban system evolution and related public policies. She has published more than 30 academic papers in international and domestic core journals, a monograph and a translated book, and hosted several national projects.

Hengyu Gu is Research Associate of Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Regional Economics at Peking University, and had been Visiting Scholar at Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago. Before he started his Ph.D., he completed a bachelor’s degree in Geographic Information Science (GIS) at South China Normal University. His research interest covers migration analysis and urbanization, spatial econometric modelling, urban computation and governance. He has published over 60 articles in international and domestic journals.