Enrollment Direction

• ① Human Geography (Regional Development and Spatial Planning)
• ② Human Geography (Joint Training with Nanjing College of Chinese Academy of Sciences University - Economic Geography)

Educational Background

• Ph.D. in Economic Geography, Department of Economic Geography, University of Kiel, Germany 
• Fujian Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, M.S. Human Geography 
• Yunnan Normal University, College of Tourism and Geosciences, B.S. Geographic Information Systems

Work experience

• Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor
• Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Department of Urban and Rural Planning, Lecturer/Associate Professor
• University of Lethbridge, Canada, Department of Geography, Postdoctoral Fellow
• Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Geography, Postdoctoral Fellow

Main research directions and interests

• Evolutionary economic geography, regional economic resilience, development of marginalized areas
• Geographies of transition, green socio-technical systems, innovation research

Current Academic Adjuncts

• Member, Economic Geography Committee, Chinese Geographical Society
• Member of the Committee of Resource-oriented Cities, China Society of Natural Resources
• Member of Regional Strategy Professional Elite Committee, China Society of Land Economics
• Member of Industrial Clusters and Regional Development Committee of National Economic Geography Research Society
• Deputy Director, Economic Geography Committee, Jiangsu Geographic Society
• Guest Researcher of Hangzhou International Center for Urbanism and Judge of Qian Xuesen Urbanism Award
• Visiting Researcher, Liangzhu Civilization Research Center (Cultural Heritage Center), School of Urbanism, Zhejiang University
• Member of Editorial Board of World Geography Research; Member of Youth Editorial Board of Journal of Fujian Normal University (Natural Science Edition).
• Editorial Board Member, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (SSCI) 
• Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (SSCI), Editorial Board Member, Transactions in Energy and Sustainability.

Honors and awards

• Nanjing Normal University (Nanjing Normal University) “School Young and Middle-aged Leading Talents” (second level) (2023)
• Qianjiang Talent Program, Zhejiang Province (2017)
• Outstanding reviewer of Geography Research (2021, 2022, 2023) and Tropical Geography (2022).

Published journal papers in the past 5 years (*communication)

• Hu, X., Tang, W*., Zhang X. & Jie, Z. (2024). Small sacrifice for the greater good: Decoding just transition on the Chinese ground from a spatial perspective. Social Inclusion. 12: 7549. 
• Qian, J., Zeng, Y., Tang, X., & Hu, X*. (2024). Empowering left-behind places in Southwest China: participation in coffee value chains as place-based development. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 17(2), 375-392.
• Wu, D., Hu, X., Chen, W., & Yuan, F. (2023). An agency perspective of regional economic resilience during COVID-19: the role of the local state’s place-based leadership in Kunshan, China. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 16(1), 119-133.
• Hu, X, Wu Q.B*, Xu, W, Li Y.W. (2022) Specialty towns in China: towards a typological policy approach. Land Use Policy, 114:105933 (Chinese Academy of Sciences District 1)
• Hu, X, Li, L.G*. & Dong K. (2022) What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19: evidence from cities in Northeast China. Cities, 120: 103440. (District 1 of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Zhu, S., Hu, X*, Hassink, R. (2022) Institutions, chain governance and the predicament of local upgrading: a case study of Hangzhou's mobile game industry. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 52(4): 602-627 . (District 1, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Hu X*, Xu W & Miao J.T. (2021) Think locally, act locally: A critique of China’s specialty town program in practice. Geographical Review, 111(3): 393-414. (SSCI Q3)
•  Shi J, Hu X*, Li Y.X. & Feng T. (2021) Does the Belt and Road Initiative reshape China's outward foreign direct investment in ASEAN? Shifting motives of state-owned and private-owned enterprises. Singapore Economic Review, 66(1 ):163-183. (SSCI Q4)
•  Tan J, Hu X*, Hassink R, Ni J. (2020) Industrial structure or agency: what affects regional economic resilience? Evidence from resource-based cities in China. Cities, 106:1-11. (Chinese Academy of Sciences District 1)
•  Zhang X, Hu X*, & Xu W. (2020) Spatio-temporal dynamics of technical efficiency in China’s specialized markets: a stochastic frontier analysis approach. Growth and Change, 51(3): 1182-1202. (SSCI Q2)
•  Hu X*, & Yang C. (2019) Institutional change and divergent economic resilience: path development of two resource-depleted cities in China. Urban Studies, 56(16): 3466-3485. (District 1 of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
•  Liu X & Hu X* (2018) Are 'sister cities' from 'sister provinces'? an exploratory study of sister city relations (SCRs) in China. Networks and Spatial Economics, 18(3): 473-491. Area)
•  Hassink R*, Hu X, Shin D-H, Yamamura S & Gong H. (2018) The restructuring of old industrial areas in East Asia. Area Development and Policy, 3(2): 185-202.
•  Hu X* & Yang C. (2018) Building a role model for rust belt cities? Fuxin’s economic revitalization in question. Cities, 72: 245-251. (District 1, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Hu X* & Hassink R. (2017) Exploring adaptation and adaptability in uneven economic resilience: A tale of two Chinese mining regions. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society, 10(3): 527-541. (Chinese Academy of Sciences District 1)
• Hu X & Hassink R* (2017) Place Leadership with Chinese characteristics? A case study of the Zaozhuang coal-mining region in transition. Regional Studies, 51(2): 224-234. (Chinese Academy of Sciences District 1)
• Hu X*. (2017) From coal mining to coal chemicals? Unpacking new path creation in an old industrial region of transitional China. Growth and Change, 48(2): 233-245. (SSCI Q2)
• Hu X & Hassink, R* (2017) New perspectives on restructuring of old industrial areas in China: A critical review and research agenda. Chinese Geographical Science, 27(1): 110-122. (SCI Q2)
• HU Xiaohui, LIN Tanchen, JI Dongzheng*, LI Jiangsu. (2024) A review of research on the development of new industrial paths in special type areas. Resource Science, 46(10): 1501-1517. 
• HU Xiaohui, HE Zhiqian, XU Jili*. (2024) From Evolution to Relationship: Turning Perspectives and Prospects of International Regional Economic Resilience Research. Human Geography, 39(6):1-10.
• HU Xiaohui, HE Zhiqian, LIAN Junwei*. (2024) From “evolutionary resilience” to “chain resilience”: Reconstructing the framework of regional economic resilience analysis. South China Journal of Geography, 2(11):1-20.
• HU Xiaohui, LIN Tanchen, WEI Yuchen*. (2024) Research Dynamics and Future Prospects of Urban Transition Laboratory in the Context of Dual Carbon. Modern Urban Studies, 39(1): 22-29.
• HU Xiaohui, ZHANG Tianyao*, ZHANG Xuliang. (2024) A study on the theoretical foundation of featured towns and their policy categorization - based on survey evidence in Zhejiang Province. Tropical Geography, 44(2): 269-279.
• HU Xiaohui, YANG Yu*. (2023) Geographic perspective of sustainable transformation and optimization of its analytical framework. Geography Research, 42(4): 1117-1129. 
• Li Liangang, Hu Xiaohui*. (2022). Analysis on the Spatiotemporal Pattern and Influencing Factors of China's Regional Economic Resilience under the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic. World Geographic Research, 1-13.
• Hu Xiaohui*, Dong Ke. (2022) Research Dynamics of Sustainable Transformation and Prospects of Economic Geography. Geographical Research, 41(1): 18-33.
• Hu Xiaohui, Dong Ke, Yang Yu*. (2021) Analysis Framework of Regional Economic Resilience from the Perspective of Strategic Coupling Evolution. Geographical Research, 40(12): 3272-3286.
• Huang Gengzhi, Wu Kang, Dai Juncheng, Liu Chen, Yao Changcheng, Tang Jingxian, Zhang Xu, Hu Xiaohui. (Other authors are co-authors. (2021) Geographical Criticism and Research on Milk Tea Economy. Economic Geography, 41(12) ): 1-11.
• Hu Xiaohui*, Liang Chencen. (2021) Knowledge pipeline construction of international regional friendship and enterprise globalization: A case study of Zhejiang Province and Schwarzwald, Germany. World Geographic Research, 30(4): 679-689.
• Wu Qianbo, Chen Xiaoxu, Hu Xiaohui*. (2021) Research on the Spatial Distribution and Type Division of Characteristic Towns Driven by Innovation——Taking Hangzhou as an Example. Urban Development Research, 28(5): 61-70.
• Yu Zhen, Gong Huiwen*, Hu Xiaohui. (2021) Review and Prospects of Geographical Research on Sustainable Transformation. Advances in Geographical Sciences, 40(3):498-510.
• Zhu Shengjun, Huang Yongyuan, Hu Xiaohui*. (2020) Research and prospect of industrial value chain and spatial upgrading from a multi-scale perspective. Advances in Geographical Sciences, 39(8):1367-1384.
• Hu Xiaohui, Zhu Shengjun*, Hassink, R. (2020) Beyond "Evolution": Research Progress and Theoretical Reflection on Remodeling of Old Industrial Areas. Geographical Research, 39(5): 1028-1044.
• Zhu Shengjun, Jin Wenwan, Hu Xiaohui*. (2020) Research progress and reflection on regional industry dynamics from the perspective of association. Geographical Research, 39(5): 1045-1055.
• Hu Xiaohui*, Zhang Wenzhong. (2018) Institutional Evolution and Regional Economic Elasticity: A Comparison of Two Resource-Exhausted Cities. Geographical Research. 37(7): 1308-1319.

Monographs and book chapters for the last five years

• Hu X. (2024) Uneven economic resilience of old industrial cities in China: a multiple-perspective analysis. Springer Nature: Singapore. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9279-9.
• Huang P. & Hu, X. (2023). Experimenting with ecological civilization on the ground: the green transformation of a resource-based city in China. In Håvard Haarstad, et al., (Eds.), in Haste: The Slow Politics of Climate Urgency. UCL Press, 93-104.
• Hu X. & Hassink R. (2020) Adaptation, adaptability and regional economic resilience: a conceptual framework. In: Bristow, G. & A. Healy (eds.), Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 54-68. 
• Hu, Xiaohui. (2019) “Cluster Life Cycle and Cluster Policies” and “Upgrading Dilemma of Traditional Industrial Clusters in the New Era--The Case of Datang Hosiery Industry in Zhuji, Zhejiang, China,” Wang Jici et al. Space for Innovation (Revised Edition):Industrial Clusters and Regional Development. Science Press: Beijing.

Vertical project chair in the last five years

• National Natural Science Top Fund, Research on the Mechanism and Effect of New Industry Path Shaping in Special Types of Regions from the Perspective of Structure-Activity (42371174), 2024.1 - 2027.12, presided over (under research).
• National Social Science Foundation, Research on the Resilience Mechanism and Enhancement Path of Small and Medium-sized Manufacturing Enterprises under the Impact of the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic (22BJL109), 2022.9 - 2025.9, presided over (under research)
• National Self-Science Foundation Youth Project, Research on the development mechanism of new industry paths in resource cities under the perspective of evolution and institutional synthesis (41601113), 2017.1 - 2019.12, presided over
• International Collaboration Project, The British Academy (UK National Academies) funded with the University of Sheffield and Lancaster University. Just transition on the ground: ecological civilization in urban China? Just transition to decarbonization in the Asia-Pacific Program 2021 ( COVJT210063), 2022 - 2025, Chair (in progress)
• International Research Program, World Resource Institute (WRI). Practicing just transitions on the ground in Zhejiang: local experiences and models, 2024 - 2025, Chair (in progress)
• HKU Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Program, Envisioning sustainable urban and regional futures in China: socio-technical transitions, experiments, and everyday negotiations. 2022 - 2025, chair (in progress). negotiations. 2022-2025, co-chaired with Associate Prof. Qian Junxi (in progress)
• Hubei Resource Depleted Cities Development Research Center (Key Project), Research on Industrial Transformation Patterns and Paths of Resource Cities with Different Life Cycles (KF2023Z02), 2023.7 - 2025.7, Chair (under research)
• Research Fund of Peking University-Lincoln Research Center, Research on the Development Mechanism of New Industry Paths in “Disadvantaged Regions”: Based on the Comprehensive Perspective of Geography of Evolution and Transformation (FS03-20201101-HXH), 2020 - 2021, hosted.
• Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Analysis and Simulation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research on Green Industry Path Development Mechanisms in Resource Cities under the Perspective of Transition Geography (KF2020-18), 2020 - 2021, Chairperson
• Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Watershed Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Comparative Study on Economic Resilience of Manufacturing Industry in Taihu Lake Basin Cities (WSGS2020005), 2020 - 2022, Chairperson
• Zhejiang Qianjiang Talent Program Project, Economic Resilience and Reconstruction Path of Single-Industry Towns in Zhejiang in the Post-Crisis Era (2017-type C), 2017 - 2020, Chairperson
  Zhejiang Province Social Science General Project, Comparative Research on Transformation Mode of Characteristic Towns in Zhejiang Province (17ZSJD05YB), 2017 - 2019, Chairperson

Contact

• Email: huxh@njnu.edu.cn
• Office Address: Room 611, School of Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
• Address: School of Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, No.1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, China.
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