Chao Ye, male, Distinguished Professor at Fudan University. Chao is the chief expert of Major Project of National Social Sciences Fund of China (No. 19ZDA086) and a member of the National Expert Committee on Grassroots Power Construction and Community Governance. He is mainly engaged in urbanization and rural-urban governance, geographical thought and methodology, and cultural geography and sustainability science. Chao has been honored the title of Young Chang Jiang Scholar by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the National Youth Geographic Science and Technology Award by GSC. So far, Chao has published over 100 papers in such journals as Nature, Science Bulletin, Habitat International, Journal of Rural Studies, Land Use Policy, and Acta Geographica Sinica, two books in English, titled A Theory and History of Rural-urban Governance in China (2021), and Urbanization and Production of Space: A Multi-scalar Empirical Study Based on China’s Cases (2023).