Hongyang Wang is a professor of urban planning and design at Nanjing University, China. He researches and teaches planning philosophy and methodology, comprehensive planning, urbanization and urban-rural integration. He has been chair for preparing more than 40 plans, including regional, strategic and master plans for over ten major cities and regions/provinces in eastern, middle and western China with five to forty million inhabitants. Many of these plans were awarded provincial, national and international planning prizes including 2012 ISOCARP Awards for Excellence. As the Co-director of the Sino-French Centre for Urban, Regional and Planning Studies by Nanjing University and University Paris-Est, he is active in international cooperation between Chinese and international planning communities of both academics and practitioners. He was the Chinese chair for European FP7 project Europe-China Urban and Regional Bi-continental research Scheme (FP7-230824 ECURBS) and a member of UN-Habitat Ad-Hoc Expert Group for International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning.