Ms. Songlan Zhou, professor at the International Economics and Trade Department of Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, with a PhD in international economics at Wuhan University, is a mentor of graduate students, outstanding member of the “Thousand, Hundred and Ten” project of Guangdong higher educational institutions, member of the board of trustees of the Guangdong Academy of Economics, standing member of the board of trustees of Guangdong Research Committee on Emerging Economies, member of the board of trustees of the Division of Practical Technologies and Management Studies of the Chinese Academy of Commercial Economics, member of the board of trustees of the Chinese Academy of Developing Economies.
Her main area of research is: regional and industrial economics. With over nine published dissertations, three books, and multiple research projects, both horizontal and vertical, on national, municipal and city level. She had won the third prize of the Fifteenth Anzijie Dissertation Competition of International Trade Studies, third prize of Outstanding Works of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Guangdong, first and second prize in Outstanding Works of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Foshan, and first prize in the Guangdong University of Finance and Economics’ Writing Competition on Educational Thoughts.