Research Interests
Spatial Governance
Land Economy and Housing
Regional Urbanization
Education and Professional Experience
July 2011–Present: Faculty Member, School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School.
February 2010–August 2010: Visiting Scholar, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
July 2008–June 2011: Postdoctoral Fellow, China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University (Shenzhen Campus), Applied Economics.
September 2003–July 2008: Ph.D. in Human Geography, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University.
September 2005–August 2006: Joint Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
September 1999–July 2003: B.S. in Resource Environment and Urban-Rural Planning Management, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University.
Courses Taught
Academic and Professional Affiliations
Member, Economic Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress.
Member, Academic Committee on Watershed Urban-Rural Spatial Planning, China Urban Planning Society.
Member, Committee on Administrative Division and Regional Governance, China Association for Administrative Division and Regional Development Promotion.
Council Member, Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC).
Council Member, Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRICM).
Council Member, Guangdong Geographical Society.
Key Research Activities
Research Projects
National-Level Projects:
Mechanisms and Optimization Pathways of Collective Construction Land Expansion in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta, National Natural Science Foundation General Program (41971205), 2020–2023, Principal Investigator.
Analysis of Village-Town Settlement Systems and Multi-Scale Spatial Structures, National Key R&D Program of China (Subproject 2018YFD1100301-1), 2018–2022, Principal Investigator.
Spatial-Economic Effects of Urban Informal Housing Markets: A Case Study of Shenzhen Special Zone, National Natural Science Foundation General Program (2014–2017), Principal Investigator.
Regulatory Technologies for Rural Industrial Optimization, National 12th Five-Year Science and Technology Support Program (Subproject), 2012–2015, Principal Investigator.
Residential Spatial Characteristics and Evolution Mechanisms of Migrants Driven by Informal Housing Markets: A Case Study of Shenzhen Urban Villages, National Natural Science Foundation Youth Program (2010–2012), Principal Investigator.
Selected Horizontal Projects:
Rural Land System Reform in Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau (2021–2023), Principal Investigator.
Rural Revitalization Planning for Yong’an Town, Dinghu District, Zhaoqing, Zhaoqing Municipal Government (2021), Principal Investigator.
Territorial Spatial Master Plan for Suide County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, Suide County Natural Resources and Planning Bureau (2020–2022), Principal Investigator.
Urban Village Renewal Strategy in Guangzhou, Guangzhou Urban Renewal Planning Institute (2019–2020), Principal Investigator.
Regional Environmental Carrying Capacity and Industrial Layout Optimization in Guizhou Province, Guizhou Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment (2019–2020), Principal Investigator.
Selected Publications (Last 5 Years)
(1) ZHU Jieming, TONG De*. 2022. Land reform from below: institutional change driven by confrontation and negotiation. Journal of Urban Affairs.
(2) TONG De, WU Yaying, Ian Maclachlan, ZHU Jieming*. 2021. The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China: The case of Shenzhen. Urban studies. DOI: 10.1177/0042098021993353.
(3) TONG De, YUAN Yuxi, WANG Xiaoguang*. 2021. The coupled relationships between land development and land ownership at China’s urban fringe: A structural equation modeling approach. Land Use Policy. 100:104925.
(4) Hui Cheng, Yani Lai*, TONG De*. 2021. Decoding the decision-making in the new wave of urban redevelopment in China: A case study of a bottom-up industrial land redevelopment in Shenzhen. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105774
(5) TONG De, YUAN Yuxi, WANG Xiaoguang*, Wu Lingjing. 2020. Spatially varying relationships between land ownership and land development at the urban fringe: A case study of Shenzhen, China. Cities. 105(10):102238.
(6) TONG De, ZHANG Yu, Ian MacLachlan*, LI Guicai. 2020. Migant housing choices from a social capital perspective: The case of Shenzhen, China. Habitat International. (96):102082.
(7) TONG De, WANG Zhenguo, HONG Yu Hung*, LIU Chengming. 2019. Assessing the possibility of charging for public leasehold renewal in China. Land Use Policy. (88):104205.
(8) LI Bin, TONG De*, WU Yaying, LI Guicai. 2019. Government-backed ‘laundering of the grey’ in upgrading urban village properties: Ningmeng Apartment Project in Shuiwei Village, Shenzhen, China. Progress in Planning. (11):100436.
(9) WANG Xiaoguang, TONG De*, GAO Jing, CHENG Yang. 2019. The reshaping of land development density through rail transit: The stories of central areas vs. suburbs in Shenzhen, China. Cities. (89): 25-35.
(10) TONG De, WANG Xiaoguang*, WU Lingjing, ZHAO Nanqi. 2018. Land ownership and the likelihood of land development at the urban fringe: The case of Shenzhen, China. Habitat International. (73): 43-52.
(11) De Tong, Zhiqiang Cao, Guangzhong Cao. 2022. Factors influencing settlement intentions of rural-urban and urban-urban migrant populations and their differences. Scientia Geographica Sinica.
(12) De Tong, Xincan Zhou, Yongxi Gong. 2021. Car-sharing travel patterns in Shanghai based on big data analysis. Progress in Geography. 40(12): 2035-2047.
(13) De Tong, Zhenying Luo, Changchun Feng. 2021. Poverty reduction effects and spatial heterogeneity of national poverty county policies. Economic Geography. 41(11): 1-9.
(14) De Tong, Chunxia Gu. 2021. Impacts of urban village renovation on tenants' residential satisfaction: A case study of Shenzhen. City Planning Review. [Online first] URL: https://kns.cnki.net/kcms/detail/11.2378.TU.20211009.1720.002.html
(15) De Tong, Yiyu Sun, Miaomiao Xie*. 2021. Accessibility assessment of urban parks in Shenzhen using modified Gaussian two-step floating catchment area method. Progress in Geography. 40(7): 1113-1126.
(16) De Tong, Jing Gao, Yongxi Gong*. 2020. Impacts of urban villages on job-housing spatial integration in Shenzhen: Evidence from mobile phone signaling data. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis. 56(6): 1091-1101.
(17) Tao Liu, Changchuan Wei, De Tong*. 2020. Human capital, social support and migrant population integration: A case study of Beijing. Population and Development. 26(2): 11-22.
(18) Yuxi Yuan, Li Ma, De Tong*, Yanmei Wang. 2019. Differentiated management zoning for intensive industrial land use: A case study of 12 coastal cities in Hainan Province. Areal Research and Development. (2): 133-138.
(19) Yu Zhang, De Tong*, Ian MacLachlan. 2018. Multidimensional analysis of residential spatial differentiation between migrant and local populations: A case study of Shenzhen. Geographical Research. 37(12): 2567-2575.
(20) Yiling Sun, De Tong*, Chao Cao. 2018. Influence mechanisms of urban built environment on public bicycle usage: A case study of Nanshan District, Shenzhen. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis. (6): 1325-1331.
Awards and Honors
Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress (China Urban Planning Society, 2021): Key Technologies and Planning Applications for Constructing Socially Perceived Personalized Urban Livability Maps.
First Prize for Science and Technology Progress (China Association for Geospatial Information, 2021): Key Technologies and Applications for Big Data-Driven Personalized Urban Livability Analysis.
First Prize for Major Issues Research (Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, 2020): Regional Environmental Carrying Capacity and Industrial Layout Optimization in Guizhou Province.
Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress (Ministry of Natural Resources, 2018): Key Technologies for Rural Land Resource Optimization and Spatial Planning.
First Prize for National Outstanding Urban and Rural Planning and Design (2011): Coordinated Development Planning for the Greater Pearl River Delta Megaregion.
