Research Interests

• Spatial Governance

• Land Economy and Housing

• Regional Urbanization

Education and Professional Experience

• July 2011-Present: Faculty Member, School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School.

• February 2010-August 2010: Visiting Scholar, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

• July 2008-June 2011: Postdoctoral Fellow, China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University (Shenzhen Campus), Applied Economics.

• September 2003-July 2008: Ph.D. in Human Geography, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University.

• September 2005-August 2006: Joint Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• September 1999-July 2003: B.S. in Resource Environment and Urban-Rural Planning Management, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University.

Courses Taught

• Urban Economics

• Regional Economy and Development

• Theory and Practice of Real Estate Markets

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Member, Economic Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress.

• Member, Academic Committee on Watershed Urban-Rural Spatial Planning, China Urban Planning Society.

• Member, Committee on Administrative Division and Regional Governance, China Association for Administrative Division and Regional Development Promotion.

• Council Member, Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC).

• Council Member, Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRICM).

• Council Member, Guangdong Geographical Society.

Key Research ActivitiesResearch ProjectsNational-Level Projects:

• Mechanisms and Optimization Pathways of Collective Construction Land Expansion in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta, National Natural Science Foundation General Program (41971205), 2020-2023, Principal Investigator.

• Analysis of Village-Town Settlement Systems and Multi-Scale Spatial Structures, National Key R&D Program of China (Subproject 2018YFD1100301-1), 2018-2022, Principal Investigator.

• Spatial-Economic Effects of Urban Informal Housing Markets: A Case Study of Shenzhen Special Zone, National Natural Science Foundation General Program (2014-2017), Principal Investigator.

• Regulatory Technologies for Rural Industrial Optimization, National 12th Five-Year Science and Technology Support Program (Subproject), 2012-2015, Principal Investigator.

• Residential Spatial Characteristics and Evolution Mechanisms of Migrants Driven by Informal Housing Markets: A Case Study of Shenzhen Urban Villages, National Natural Science Foundation Youth Program (2010-2012), Principal Investigator.

Selected Horizontal Projects:

• Rural Land System Reform in Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau (2021-2023), Principal Investigator.

• Rural Revitalization Planning for Yong’an Town, Dinghu District, Zhaoqing, Zhaoqing Municipal Government (2021), Principal Investigator.

• Territorial Spatial Master Plan for Suide County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, Suide County Natural Resources and Planning Bureau (2020-2022), Principal Investigator.

• Urban Village Renewal Strategy in Guangzhou, Guangzhou Urban Renewal Planning Institute (2019-2020), Principal Investigator.

• Regional Environmental Carrying Capacity and Industrial Layout Optimization in Guizhou Province, Guizhou Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment (2019-2020), Principal Investigator.

Selected Publications (Last 5 Years)

(1) ZHU Jieming, TONG De*. 2022. Land reform from below: institutional change driven by confrontation and negotiation. Journal of Urban Affairs.

(2) TONG De, WU Yaying, Ian Maclachlan, ZHU Jieming*. 2021. The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China: The case of Shenzhen. Urban studies. DOI: 10.1177/0042098021993353.

(3) TONG De, YUAN Yuxi, WANG Xiaoguang*. 2021. The coupled relationships between land development and land ownership at China’s urban fringe: A structural equation modeling approach. Land Use Policy. 100:104925.

(4) Hui Cheng, Yani Lai*, TONG De*. 2021. Decoding the decision-making in the new wave of urban redevelopment in China: A case study of a bottom-up industrial land redevelopment in Shenzhen. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105774

(5) TONG De, YUAN Yuxi, WANG Xiaoguang*, Wu Lingjing. 2020. Spatially varying relationships between land ownership and land development at the urban fringe: A case study of Shenzhen, China. Cities. 105(10):102238.

(6) TONG De, ZHANG Yu, Ian MacLachlan*, LI Guicai. 2020. Migant housing choices from a social capital perspective: The case of Shenzhen, China. Habitat International. (96):102082.

(7) TONG De, WANG Zhenguo, HONG Yu Hung*, LIU Chengming. 2019. Assessing the possibility of charging for public leasehold renewal in China. Land Use Policy. (88):104205.

(8) LI Bin, TONG De*, WU Yaying, LI Guicai. 2019. Government-backed ‘laundering of the grey’ in upgrading urban village properties: Ningmeng Apartment Project in Shuiwei Village, Shenzhen, China. Progress in Planning. (11):100436.

(9) WANG Xiaoguang, TONG De*, GAO Jing, CHENG Yang. 2019. The reshaping of land development density through rail transit: The stories of central areas vs. suburbs in Shenzhen, China. Cities. (89): 25-35.

(10) TONG De, WANG Xiaoguang*, WU Lingjing, ZHAO Nanqi. 2018. Land ownership and the likelihood of land development at the urban fringe: The case of Shenzhen, China. Habitat International. (73): 43-52.

(11) De Tong, Zhiqiang Cao, Guangzhong Cao. 2022. Factors influencing settlement intentions of rural-urban and urban-urban migrant populations and their differences. Scientia Geographica Sinica.

(12) De Tong, Xincan Zhou, Yongxi Gong. 2021. Car-sharing travel patterns in Shanghai based on big data analysis. Progress in Geography. 40(12): 2035-2047.

(13) De Tong, Zhenying Luo, Changchun Feng. 2021. Poverty reduction effects and spatial heterogeneity of national poverty county policies. Economic Geography. 41(11): 1-9.

(14) De Tong, Chunxia Gu. 2021. Impacts of urban village renovation on tenants' residential satisfaction: A case study of Shenzhen. City Planning Review. [Online first] URL: https://kns.cnki.net/kcms/detail/11.2378.TU.20211009.1720.002.html

(15) De Tong, Yiyu Sun, Miaomiao Xie*. 2021. Accessibility assessment of urban parks in Shenzhen using modified Gaussian two-step floating catchment area method. Progress in Geography. 40(7): 1113-1126.

(16) De Tong, Jing Gao, Yongxi Gong*. 2020. Impacts of urban villages on job-housing spatial integration in Shenzhen: Evidence from mobile phone signaling data. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis. 56(6): 1091-1101.

(17) Tao Liu, Changchuan Wei, De Tong*. 2020. Human capital, social support and migrant population integration: A case study of Beijing. Population and Development. 26(2): 11-22.

(18) Yuxi Yuan, Li Ma, De Tong*, Yanmei Wang. 2019. Differentiated management zoning for intensive industrial land use: A case study of 12 coastal cities in Hainan Province. Areal Research and Development. (2): 133-138.

(19) Yu Zhang, De Tong*, Ian MacLachlan. 2018. Multidimensional analysis of residential spatial differentiation between migrant and local populations: A case study of Shenzhen. Geographical Research. 37(12): 2567-2575.

(20) Yiling Sun, De Tong*, Chao Cao. 2018. Influence mechanisms of urban built environment on public bicycle usage: A case study of Nanshan District, Shenzhen. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis. (6): 1325-1331.

Awards and Honors

• Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress (China Urban Planning Society, 2021): Key Technologies and Planning Applications for Constructing Socially Perceived Personalized Urban Livability Maps.

• First Prize for Science and Technology Progress (China Association for Geospatial Information, 2021): Key Technologies and Applications for Big Data-Driven Personalized Urban Livability Analysis.

• First Prize for Major Issues Research (Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, 2020): Regional Environmental Carrying Capacity and Industrial Layout Optimization in Guizhou Province.

• Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress (Ministry of Natural Resources, 2018): Key Technologies for Rural Land Resource Optimization and Spatial Planning.

• First Prize for National Outstanding Urban and Rural Planning and Design (2011): Coordinated Development Planning for the Greater Pearl River Delta Megaregion.