Professor Zou Gaolu is a Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong. He is a Master of Science (Regional Geography) from Southwest China Normal University. He was a visiting scholar of land valuation at the University of Greenwich (London) from 1994 to 1995. From 2007 to 2012, he served as a professor at Sichuan Normal University and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. He worked as a professor at Chengdu University in 2013. His main research fields include economic geography, regional economics, real estate economics, real estate valuation, resource and environment economics, economic policy simulation, etc.