刘卫东，现任中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所研究员、博士生导师、副所长，2011年国家杰出青年基金获得者，中国科学院特聘研究员。兼任中国地理学会“一带一路”研究分会主任、国际区域研究协会中国分会理事长、全国工商联国际合作委员会委员、中国经济社会理事会理事等。Area Development and Policy创刊主编，Journal of Geographical Sciences副主编，以及Progress in Human Geography、Contemporary Social Science、SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences等期刊编委。

先后主持过重点研发计划项目、中科院先导专项项目、重点基金、中科院重要方向项目及STS项目、重点部署项目等。曾获第七届全国优秀科技工作者荣誉称号，入选“百千万人才工程”并获得“国家有突出贡献中青年专家”称号。长期从事经济全球化及区域发展研究，近年来一直从事“一带一路”研究。

Name: LIU  Weidong

Current Appointment: Professor in Economic Geography;

Deputy Head of the Department of Human Geography and Regional Development

Education:

 1996.11-2000.3, Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, Ph.D.;

 1988.7 -1991.4, Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, MS.;

 1984.9-1988.7, Department of Geography, Peking University, BS.

Areas of Specialization: Economic geography and regional development studies.

 Spatial implications of new information and communication technologies;

 Global production network and foreign direct investment in China;

 Regional development and disparities in China

 Local and regional sustainable development

Academic Awards:

 Elio Matacena Award for Outstanding Papers by Young Scholars in China, 2003, 

 National Outstanding Young Geographer, 2003;

 Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong, 2000;

 2nd Class Award for Science and Technology Progress, CAS, 1998;

 2st Class Award for Science and Technology Progress, Xiamen, China, 1996

Society Appointments:

 Chair, Commission on Economic Geography, the Geographical Society of China;

 Full member of the IGU Commission on Local Development;

 Advisory Board Member, Progress in Human Geography;

 Editorial Board member, Eurasian Geography and Economics;

 Head, CNC-IHDP/Industrial Transformation Working Group;

 Member of the Membership Committee of the Association of American Geographers; 

Honorary research fellow, AACS, Hong Kong Baptist University;

 Co-Chair, Second Global Conference on Economic Geography, June 25-28, 2007.

Consultancy:

 Consultant to the Office of the Leading Group of Western Region Development of the State Council, for Making the 11th Five-Year-Plan of Western China;

 Consultant to the National Sustainable Communities, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China;

 2006-07, Part-time consultant to the Asia Development Bank, for the project of “Gansu Provincial Development Strategy”;

 2004-05, Part-time consultant to China-EU Environmental Management Cooperation Program (Lot 2: Local and Municipal Development), for making Planning Guide for Local Sustainable Development in China,

 2003-05, Part-time consultant to the World Bank, for the project of “Study of Small Town Development Strategy in China”;

 2002.2-6, Part-time consultant to the World Bank, for the project of “City Development Strategy in China” (China CDS2);

 2001.4-6, Part-time consultant to the World Bank, for the project of “Development of Lagging Regions in China”. 

Publications:

1. Liu, Weidong, 2009, Where is the bridge? Progress in Human Geography, 33(1):7-9;

2. Liu, Weidong & Yeung, H.W.C., 2008, China’s Dynamic Industrial Sector: The Automobile Industry, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49(5):523-548.

3. Liu, Weidong & Wu, Wei, 2008, Development of Local Financial Systems in Mainland China, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49(2):160-179.

4. Yeung, H.W.C & Liu, Weidong, 2008, Globalizing China: The Rise of Mainland Chinese Firms in the Global Economy, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49(1):57-86;

5. Liu, Weidong & Dicken, P., 2006, Transnational corporations and ‘obligated embeddedness’: foreign direct investment in China’s automobile Industry, Environment and Planning A, 38(7):1229-1247;

6. Yeung, H.W.C, Liu, Weidong & Dicken, P., 2006, Transnational Corporations and Network Effects of a Local Manufacturing Cluster in Mobile Telecommunications Equipment in China, World Development, 34(3):520-540;

7. Yeung, H.W.C. & Liu W.D., 2006, Teaching Economic Geography in Two Contrasting Asian Contexts: Decentering Anglo-American Economic Geography in China and Singapore, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, V30(3), 449-455.

8. Liu, Weidong, Dicken, P. & Yeung, H.W.C., 2004, New Information and Communication Technologies and Local Clustering of Firms: A case study of the Xingwang industrial park in Beijing, Urban Geography, 25(4):390-407;

9. Liu, Weidong & Lu Dadao, 2002, Rethinking the Development of Economic Geography in Mainland China, Environment and Planning A, 34(12):2107-2126;

10. Sit, V.F.S. & Liu, Weidong, 2000, Restructuring and Spatial Change of China's Auto Industry under Institutional Reform and Globalization, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(4):653-673;

11. Liu Weidong, 2002, Development of the Internet in China and Its Spatial Characteristics, in Hayter R. & Heron R. (eds.), Knowledge, Territory and Industrial Space, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, pp.87-106;

12. Liu Weidong, 2001, Assessing Total Regional Development in China, in Sit, V.F.S. & Lu, Da-dao (eds.), China’s Regional Disparity: Issues and Policies, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., pp.39-83;

13. Wang J. Jixian & Liu Weidong, 2000, The Dynamic Relationship between Central Government and Local Authorities in Orienting Foreign Direct Investment: a case of automotive industry, in Li, S. M. & Tang, W. S. (eds.), China’s Regions, Polity, & Economy, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, pp.217-246;

14. Liu Weidong & Lu Dadao, 2005, Methodological Basis for Making Regional Spatial Planning in China in the New Era, Acta Geographic Sinica (in Chinese), V60(6): 894-902;

15. Liu Weidong & Lu Dadao, 2004, Progress in Economic Geography, Annals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (in Chinese), V.19(1), 35-39;

16. Ye Qi & Liu Weidong, 2004, Progress in the Study of Labour Issues by Economic Geographers in Western Countries, Acta Geographic Sinica (in Chinese), V.50(S); 191-197;

17. Lu, Dadao & Liu, Weidong, 2000, Analysis of Geo-factors behind Regional Development and Regional Policy in China, Geographical Science (in Chinese), V20(6), 487-493.

Major Research Projects since 2004:

 Assessing the Impacts of Industrial Restructuring on Carbon Emission in China, 2007-10, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, principle investigator;

 A Study of the Spatial Strategy of the Development of Central China, 2005-07, funded by CAS, principle investigator;

 Analysis of Factors and Dynamics of Regional Sustainable Development, 2005-06, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, principle investigator; 

Modeling of Regional Sustainable Development, 2005-06, funded by IGSNRR, CAS, principle investigator. 

A Study of the Natural Resources and Environmental Basis for Sustainable Development of Central China and Its Spatial Patterns, 2005-06, funded by CAS, principle investigator

A Study of the Impacts of New Information and Communication Technologies on Firm’s Spatial Organization, 2006-08, funded by China National Natural Sciences Foundation, principle investigator. 

A Study of Small Town Development Strategy in China, 2003-05, the World Bank, expert on industrial economics;  

Strategy of Sustainable Development of Northeast China, 2004, entrusted by the State Council and granted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, major investigator

Office Address:

 Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS

 11A Plus, Datun Road

 Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China

 Tel: ++86-10-64889081

 Fax: ++86-10-64889302

 Email: liuwd@igsnrr.ac.cn