International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Hanying MAO

Profile:

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Hanying Mao is a distinguished Chinese human and economic geographer whose research and professional work have focused on urban and regional planning, regional sustainable development, and world geography. Born in 1938, he graduated from the Department of Geography, Nanjing University, with a specialisation in Economic Geography in 1961 and joined the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in the same year. From 1986 to 1987, he conducted senior visiting scholar research at the Department of Geography, Leningrad University (now Saint Petersburg University), USSR. He was approved as a Doctoral Supervisor by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee in 1992. He currently serves as Senior Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in Economic Geography at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, and as Leader of the Expert Group of the Regional and Urban Planning and Design Research Center at the same institute. He also serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.

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Professor Mao’s research has centred on urban and regional planning, regional sustainable development, and world geography, with particular emphasis on the spatial organisation of economic activities, urban agglomeration planning, and sustainable development strategies for China’s major economic regions. Through participation in and leadership of national regional planning projects, he completed the master plan for the Wuhan Urban Circle in 2005, contributing to research and practice in regional coordinated development. He received the Second Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Natural Science Award in 1997 and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and regional planning reports. His work has addressed the relationship between economic geography, spatial organisation, and regional development, as well as the application of geographical approaches to urban and regional planning. Through sustained research, strategic planning practice, and international scientific collaboration, Professor Mao has contributed to connecting economic geography with practical questions of regional development, sustainable urbanisation, spatial planning, and regional governance.