Academic Leadership and Professional Service

• Chief Planner, Shanghai Liaison Office for the Development of Central and Western China, State Council of the People’s Republic of China.
• Deputy Chief Planner, Shanghai Creative Industries Center.
• Former Deputy Director, Shanghai Design Center.
• Executive Council Member, Shanghai Industrial Design Association.
• Chair, Professional Committee, Shanghai Packaging Association.

Honors and Awards

• New Century Excellent Talents Program, Ministry of Education of China.
• Outstanding Art Teacher Award, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.
• Shanghai Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educating, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.
• Recognized as one of the Top Ten Leaders in Shanghai Creative Industries.
• Selected among the 100 Most Influential Designers in Shanghai.
• Team Leader of the National May Day Labor Award and the Shanghai May Day Labor Award.
• Team Leader of the Shanghai Worker Pioneer Award.

Selected Publications and Editorial Work

• Shanghai, DOMUS (Italian Edition), 2016.
• China’s Urbanization and the Preservation of Rural Landscapes, Guangming Daily, 2015.
• Post-Expo Utilization of the Shanghai World Expo Pavilions, 2012.
• Creative Shanghai: Serving the World Expo, People’s Daily, 2009.
• Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of Shanghai’s Design Industry: Planning for Creative Industry Parks, 2007.
• Editor-in-Chief, Design Volume of Da Cihai (China’s comprehensive encyclopedia), 2012.
• General Editor, ECNU Series on Humanistic Design, 2014.
• General Editor, ECNU Series on Modern Shanghai Commercial Visual Culture, 2011.
• General Editor, ECNU Series on Visual Communication and Humanities, 2010.

Academic Leadership and International Activities

• Chair, International Forum on Small Town Development and Rural Regeneration Design (2014, 2015).
• Invited Speaker, World Architects Summit, Turin, Italy, 2008.
• Co-founder, Shanghai Italy Design Center, established jointly with the University of Florence and Politecnico di Torino, 2005.
• Organizer, Italian Design Week and the China–Italy Designers Forum, Shanghai, 2005.
• Organizer, Shanghai Creative Industries Week, 2005.
• Chair, First Shanghai Forum on Creative Industry Development, 2004.

Selected Research, Planning and Design Projects
Directed numerous interdisciplinary research and design projects integrating urban planning, visual communication, cultural heritage, tourism, branding, and public design, including:

• Urban landscape planning for Xibin Town, Fujian (2015).
• Brand strategy for Mantianxing Commercial District, Shanghai (2015).
• Hospitality facilities for Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport and Kunming Changshui International Airport (2016).
• Tourism planning for Yandang Mountain Moonlight Town, Zhejiang (2016).
• Rural tourism and homestay planning in Guiyang, Guizhou (2016).
• Visual identity system for Shanghai Zoo (2016).
• Urban waterfront regeneration in Tunxi District, Huangshan (2017).
• Branding and packaging design projects for regional agricultural products in Fujian (2016–2017).
• Shanghai Gifts cultural product design program (2017).