Urban–Rural Governance and Regional Sustainability; Land Institutional Reform and Territorial Spatial Governance

Ph.D. in Geography, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Sep. 2022 – Dec. 2025
M.Sc. in Human Geography, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Sep. 2019 – Jun. 2022
B.Mgt. in Land Resources Management, School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Sep. 2015 – Jun. 2019

Principal Investigator, Jiangsu Provincial Graduate Research and Practice Innovation Program, Land-Use Pattern Responses and Common Prosperity Effects of Urban–Rural Construction Land Market Integration, 2024–2025.

Participant, NSFC Emergency Management Program, Theoretical Foundations and Practical Pathways of Urban–Rural Integrated Development, 2025–2026.

Participant, China Land Surveying and Planning Institute, Empirical Monitoring and Evaluation of Land Policy in 2024, 2024.

Participant, Sinopec-commissioned project, Development and Implementation of a High-Quality Land Management Mechanism for Oilfield Enterprises, 2021–2022.

Participant, Maoming Municipal People’s Government-commissioned project, Special Report on the Redevelopment of Existing Construction Land in Maoming, 2020–2022.

Participant, Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, Theory and Methods for Evaluating the Potential of Inefficient Urban Land Use, 2019–2020.

Participant, Hainan Provincial Government-commissioned project, Evaluation of Resource and Environmental Carrying Capacity and Territorial Spatial Development Suitability in Hainan Province, 2019–2020.

Participant, Jiangsu Provincial Government-commissioned project, Evaluation of Resource and Environmental Carrying Capacity and Territorial Spatial Development Suitability in Jiangsu Province, 2019–2020.

Zhong, S., Huang, X., & Mao, X. (2026). Deciphering China's urban-rural income gap: A multi-level analysis, 2006–2020. Cities, 168, 106488.
Zhong, S., Huang, X., Chen, Z., et al. (2024). Urban-rural construction land market integration models and differentiation mechanisms at the county level:A comparative case study of Deqing county, Zhejiang province and Nanhai district,Guangdong province. Chinese Rural Economy, (11), 23–41. (in Chinese)

Zhong, S., Huang, X. (2023). Measurement and empirical analysis of urban-rural construction land market integration. China Land Science, 37(8), 62–72. (in Chinese)

Zhong, S., Wang, M., Zhu, Y., Chen, Z., & Huang, X. (2022). Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China. Cities, 129, 103831.

Jia, K., Zhong, S., & Huang, X. (2025). Unpacking Outcomes: A quasi-experimental study on the effectiveness of China’s major function-oriented zone planning. Landscape and Urban Planning, 264, 105482.

Huang, X., Zhong, S., & Zhong, T. (2023). Land and Land Policies. Land Policy in China: Issues, Analysis and Implications (pp.1-31). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

National Scholarship (Doctoral Level), 2025

Outstanding Communist Youth League Cadre of the School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, 2024

Doctoral Excellence Scholarship of Nanjing University, 2022