**About the Editors**

#### **Yongsheng Wang**

Yongsheng Wang is the Vice Executive Secretary of the Geographic Big Data Working Committee of the Geographical Society of China and a member of the Professional Scientific and Technological Service Group of High-Quality Geographical Products, Habitat Protection, and Sustainable Development of "Innovation China" in the Geographical Society of China. He is engaged in the cross-research of ecology and human geography, focusing on rural resource use and its environmental effects, land consolidation projects, and regional development. He has published more than 60 papers in professional journals as the first author or corresponding author, including more than 30 SCI/SSCI papers. He was awarded the Beijing Excellent Talent Award in 2017, and first prize of National Land Science and Technology in 2019 and 2020, and ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2023.

#### **Qi Wen**

Qi Wen is the Deputy Director of the Committee on Arid Research of the Geographical Society of China, and a Council Member of the Geographical Society of China and China Society of Natural Resources. He received his Ph.D. degree from Shaanxi Normal University in 2009. In 2013, he worked as Visiting Scholar at the Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include the following: sustainable land use; rural development; urban–rural development; and energy economics. He was awarded the national May 1st Labor Medal in 2022. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Scientia Geographica Sinica (in Chinese) and Economic Geography (in Chinese).

#### **Dazhuan Ge**

Dazhuan Ge is the Vice President of the Institute on Rural Vitalization, Nanjing Normal University. He is also a member of the Commission on Agricultural Geography and Rural Development of the Geographical Society of China, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Special Committee on Land Resources Research of the Chinese Society of Natural Resources. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. From 2019 to 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the field of territorial spatial planning at the School of Geography and Marine Science, Nanjing University. His research interests include the following: rural spatial governance; land use transition; and urban–rural development. He was awarded the Jiangsu Province Youth Geographic Science and Technology Award in 2022 and named one of China's 100 Outstanding Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows in 2022.

#### **Bangbang Zhang**

Bangbang Zhang's research interests are cultivated land protection and food security, cultivated land quality and land evaluation, cultivated land fragmentation governance and farmland construction projects, land planning and ecological restoration, and rural land reform and rural revitalization. He has spearheaded more than 10 research projects and published nearly 60 academic papers; nearly 40 of them have been published with him as the first author or corresponding author. He has authored two academic monographs in the related fields of arable land fragmentation governance and farmland construction engineering. He has been recognized with awards, including the Guangxi Autonomous Region Government Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award (2/15) and the Shaanxi Higher Education Institutions Science and Technology Outstanding Achievement Award (1/11).
