Professor Wu Qiyan, graduated from the Department of Geoscience, Yunnan University in 1993, and achieved his master’s degree in 1996 from the School of Geography, Liaoning Normal University. In 1999, he was granted doctoral degree from the Department of Urban Resources of Nanjing University under the guidance of Professor Cui Gonghao. He was exceptionally promoted to be associate professor in city planning in 2000 and be professor in 2001 by the Department of Architecture, Kunming University of Science and Technology. At the invitation of Yunnan University in 2002, he was responsible for the establishment of the Department of Urban Science and the School of Urban Construction and Management. He was awarded as the “Academic Leader in Urban and Rural Planning of Yunnan Province” in 2008, and the “National Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Geographer” in 2009. In 2007, he went to the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, as a visiting professor to the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), cooperating with Professor John Friedmann and Associate Professor Michael Leaf. In 2010, he went to teach in the School of Geography of Nanjing Normal University. In 2015, he accepted the offer from the Simon Fraser University (SFU) to be a part-time professor in the Department of Urban Studies. And in the same year, he became a professor of the School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University. Professor Wu was officially recruited by Xi’an Jiaotong University as a Young Top-notch Talent into the School of Public Policy and Administration in 2017. He is a young and middle-aged scholar who is mainly engaged in theoretical exploration and innovation in domestic urban research.
Professor Wu mainly focuses on the residential segregation in urban China during the transitional period, which is the first academic research and practice in the systematic discussion on this topic. His research results won the third prize of “Yunnan Natural Science Award” in 2006. He was recommended by Professor Zhou Yixing of Peking University to take part in the compiling of the Chinese cities items forEncyclopedia Britannica. Recently, he puts most of his efforts on issues related to education-driven gentrification (Professor Wu is the person who creates the concept of Jiaoyufication), social differentiation and residential segregation, urban political economics, and environmental governance and energy policies. In general, his research fields mainly include:
Social space in cities. As a scholar mainly engaged in research on social spatial differentiation, Professor Wu ranks the first in the “educational stratification”, the sixth in the “residential segregation”, and the eleventh for the “gentrification” of the googlescholar citation list. His research achievements have been reported in series byVancouver Sun,Star MetroandMingpao Daily News. He also accepted the interview bythe Wall Street.
Tecno-institutional complex (TIC). Professor Wu, on the basis of urban growth machine proposed by Molotch and Logan and urban regime proposed by Stone, put forward a theoretical system of continuous variants, named institutional industrial complex (IIC), which helps explain and analyze urban political and economic structure, and solve the problems that beyond the “decarbonization” by technological economics. The complex is used to analyze and guide the path of decreasing the carbon lock-in effect, and promoting low-carbon and cleaner production, as well as sustainable development. It can also be used to study politics, economy and development model of cities in other countries which are undergoing transition.
Professor Wu has presided over and participated in over ten international (funded by ESRC and BA/Leverhulme) and domestic (funded by the Natural Science Foundation, the Social Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education) research projects. His research results have been published in the top journals about urban studies, including highly influential SSCI, SCI and CSSCI journals, likeInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research,Urban Studies,Urban Geography,Journal of Rural Studies,Land Use Policy,Housing Studies,Cities,Habitat International,Applied Energy,Energy Policy,Journal of Cleaner Production,Acta Geographica Sinica,City Planning Review,Geographical Research,Scientia Geographica Sinica, andHuman Geography.
Membership of Professor Wu in professional associations:
Expert for performance evaluation on educational responsibilities of provincial people’s government by the Ministry of Education since 2018;
Member of the Research Society for Resource Flows and Management of China Society of Resources since 2018;
Editor of Cogent Social Sciences and Geograp (two ESCI journals) since 2016;
Member of the Research Society for Urban Geography of the Geographical Society of China since 2013;
Member of the Editorial Board of the Chinese Geographical Science (a SCIE journal) from 2009 to 2014;
Member of the Education Commission of the China Society of Natural Sciences;
Professor Wu is the reviewer of multiple fund projects and many SSCI, SCI (SCIE), or CSSCI journals, includingInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research,Urban Studies,Urban Affair Review,Journal of Cleaner Production,Canadian Studies in Population,the International Journal of Housing Policy,Geographical Research,Scientia Geographica Sinica(both in Chinese and in English version),Human Geography,Economic Geography,Progress in Geography,Tropical Geography, andJournal of Wuhan University.
