Basic Information:
Name: Tongsheng Li
Title: Professor
Date of birth: September 1962
Native place: Qishan, Shaanxi province
Present position:
Deputy Dean of College of Urban and Environmental Sciences,Northwest University
Vice President of Resources and Environment & Urban-rural Development Institute
Contact:
Phone: +86-29 8830-8419
Fax:   +86-29 8830-8428
E-mail: leetang@nwu.edu.cn

Brief Introduction:
Dr. Li is currently a professor at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University. He is a doctoral advisor within specialty at human geography and master advisor for urban planning and design, as well as regional economics. As an academic pacesetter, Prof. Li focuses on both research and teaching centered on human geography. In addition, he is proficient in Russian and good at English.
Prof. Li greatly exerts the role in specialty and course construction and organization, additionally, holds some novel pedagogic mode for undergraduates and pursues the reform ideas and implementation plans about courses in geography and the curriculum system.

Education:
2003.11-2004.04 Senior visiting scholar at Moscow National Normal University and Moscow State University, Russia
1988.10-1992.08 Ph.D. of Economic and Social Geography, Odessa State University (the Former Soviet Union)
1986.09-1988.10 M.S. of Regional Geography, in the Department of Geography, NWU
1980.09-1984.07 B.S. of Physical Geography, in the Department of Geography, NWU

Professional experience:
2003- Full professor, Northwest University;
Doctoral Advisor
2000- Deputy Dean of College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, NWU
1995-2000 Associate professor, Department of Urban and Resources, NWU
1994-1995 Lecturer, Department of Urban and Resources, NWU

Research interests:
1. Human-land relationship cybernetics and the dynamic mechanism of evolution
2. Urban-rural integrative development, urban-rural structure
3. Agriculture Sci. & Tech. area for technological diffusion and other geographical effects
4. Industrial tourism, eco-nature/-agriculture tourism, and tourist region planning
5. Pedagogics in advanced education

Courses offered: (Since 1994)
• Undergraduate courses: Economic geography; Industry development and site selection; Economic geography of China; National land planning; Regional economics etc.
• Postgraduate course: Modern human geography; Regional development and its spatial structure; the tendency and forward problem of modern human geography, etc.

Human geography lectured by Prof. Li, remarkably, selected for “Shaanxi Provincial Notable Course Project”. In addition, Resources Environment and the Management of Urban and Rural Planning is evaluated the “National Distinguished Major”.

Professional activities:
• Supervised 6 completed Ph.D. degrees, and supervised approximately 36 M.S. completed degrees thesis candidates.       
• Supervisor of 5 on-going Ph.D. candidates
• Teaching 2 undergraduate courses, and 3 postgraduate courses. 
• Completed over 30 projects for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Abb. NSFC), the National Social Sciences Fund, the ministry of education, ministry of science and technology, ministry of land and resources, Shaanxi government S&T plan

Other social/academic positions and activities:
• Member of the Advisory Board for Shaanxi Provincial Government Policy-making
• Deputy Director of the Geographical Society of China (Abb. GSC), Commission on World Regional Geography
• Committeeman of the GSC Commission on Urban Geography
• Member of Municipal Consultative Committee for Tourism Development, Xi’an
• Member of the Expert Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture Development, Xi’an
• Editorial Board Member – Core Journal of Geography Science, Economic Geography, Human Geography, World Regional Studies and Rural Tourism Research (Taiwan Tourism Industry Development Association)
• Participate in and member of Scientific Committees in several other conferences or Industry Development Seminars
• Elected as member of Ph.D. thesis evaluation committees of some other Universities
• Organize recently several other evaluation conferences in Shaanxi, Gansu, etc

Intercommunion in science and education:
• A long-term international exchanges and cooperation relationships with the Moscow State University, the Moscow National Normal University, the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, the Odessa Polytechnic and the Institute of Geography, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences have been established.
• Some solid academic progress has been made on communication aboard to the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Abb. CUHK), Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, to the National Chi Nan University (Taiwan), to the Asia University (Taiwan), etc.
• Numerous domestic academic exchanges (e.g. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, CAS) have promoted and domestic cooperation with institutions of scientific research (Northeast Institute of Geography and Agro-ecology, CAS) boost and higher education -- the East China Normal University, the Nanjing University, the Nanjing Normal University, the Ningxia University, the Shaanxi Normal University, the Xi’an International Studies University, etc.

Academic awards:
2011 Xi’an Municipal Scientific & Technological Progress 2nd Prize: The Protection of Great Sites and the Coordinated Development Pattern of Culture Industry (Member)
2010 Foreign Propaganda Publication 1st Prize, selected by the central foreign propaganda office/the state council information office: 2009•Shaanxi•China (Lead author)
2009 The honor and award of the first “National Paragon in Geography”
2009 “The Human Geography in 100 Issues Award” by human geography journal: The Spatial Structure and Developing Characteristics of Moscow’s Metropolitan Area (in 1st issue， 1995)
2008 Xi’an Municipal Scientific & Technological Progress 3rd Prize: A study on Xi’an Rural Tourism Resources Investigation and Exploration (Author)
2008 Second Prize for Excellent Paper in the 1st “The Wu Chuanjun Award” (GSC.): A SD-based Spatio-temporal Synergy Analysis on Water System and Socio-Economic System in River Valley -- A Case Study of Guanzhong Segment in Weihe River Valley
2004 Xi’an Municipal Scientific & Technological Progress 2nd Prize: A Study on Xi’an Recreational Agriculture Development (Author)
2001 Shaanxi Provincial Teaching Achievements 2nd-class Award: Exploration and Practice on Rounded-improving the Quality of Postgraduate Cultivation (Author)

Publications:
• More than 100 refered journal papers and conference publications
• Over 10 monographs and book-chapters
• A large number of restricted/public sci. reports and international guest lectures

Grants:
Sub-task leader in -- the comprehensive research for geographic basis of China's regional development – (subtask) the typical study on regional economic effect factors, supported by Major Program of NSFC (40131010), 2002~2005
Task leader in -- the rural space types and their corresponding patterns of comprehensive development, supported by NSFC (49671023), 1997~1999
Task leader in-- Agricultural science and technology areas’ spatial technologic diffusion and the corresponding geographical patterns, NSFC (40871068), 2009~2010
Sub-task leader in -- the strategic study on the new pattern of urban-rural/ soc-economic integration in the western China-- (subtask) evaluative analysis about the general state of the urban-rural/ soc-economic integration in western China, supported by Major Program of National Social Science Fund (08&027), 2009~2011
Task leader in the research project supported by National Social Science Fund (05BJL07)
Sub-ask leader in the research project supported by Supported by State Key Development Program of (for) Basic Research of China（2005CB7248011）
Task leader in the research project supported by Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China （20060697004）
Task leader in the research project supported by Science Foundation of The Chinese Education Commission，1995～1997
Task leader in the research project supported by Ministry of Land Resource of China, 2001~2002
Task leader in three research projects supported by Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi (1996D07), 1997~1999; 
(2003D06), 2004~2006;
(2000D07), 2001~2002
Task leader in two research projects supported by Provincial Science Research Plan （2008K08-06）2009~2011;
and supported by Provincial Soft-Science Research Programs（R200228）, 2002~2003
Task leader in the research projects…..etc.