International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Feng DAI

Profile:

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1999, Professor Feng Dai is a distinguished Chinese urban planner, with significant contributions to regulatory planning, urban management, and the application of information technology to city governance. Born in March 1942 in Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province, he graduated from Wuhan Institute of Construction in Urban and Rural Planning and Construction in 1964. He began his professional career as a technician at the Guangzhou Municipal Construction Bureau, where he worked from 1964 to 1980, before serving as an engineer at the Guangzhou Municipal Engineering Design Institute from 1980 to 1982. From 1983 to 1986, he served as Deputy Director of the Guangzhou Municipal Planning Bureau and subsequently became Director of the Guangzhou Municipal Urban Planning Bureau and a member of its Party Committee from 1986. In 1998, he was elected Vice Chairman of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He has also served as Senior Advisor to the China Association of City Planning, Honorary Director of the Urban Planning Society of China, a Member of the China Urban Planning Advisory Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Urban Transportation Planning Academic Committee of China. He has held adjunct professorships at Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Wuhan University of Technology.

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Professor Dai’s research and professional work have focused on regulatory planning, urban management reform, and the application of information technology to urban planning and governance, with particular emphasis on the experience of Guangzhou. Through his long-term involvement in municipal planning during China’s reform and opening-up period, he contributed to the development and institutionalisation of statutory planning, the coordination of land-use regulation with market-oriented development mechanisms, and the application of geographic information systems to urban management. His academic publications include “Methods and Implementation of Urban Regulatory Planning,” “Understanding and Practice of Regulatory Planning,” and “Urban Planning and Information Technology: Development and Practice in Guangzhou, China,” while his monographs include Research on the Floating Population of Guangzhou and Guangzhou Property. His work has connected the theoretical development of regulatory planning with practical approaches to urban development and administration, particularly in the context of rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Through sustained academic service, professional leadership, and engagement in urban planning practice, Professor Dai has contributed to the development of planning methodologies and governance approaches relevant to the construction of efficient, sustainable, and resilient cities in China and the broader Eurasian region.