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Chengri Ding

Chengri Ding is an Associate and director of China Urban Management and Land Policy Program at the National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996 in urban and regional planning. A specialist in land policy, urban economics, urban policy and planning, Chengri Ding has published in journals like Journal of Urban Economics Urban Studies, Housing Policy Debates, Environment and Planning, Land Use Policy, International Regional Science Review, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Real Estate Research, JPER, etc. He (co-editor) published two books and on forthcoming related to Land, Housing, Urban Development, and Smart Growth in China, along with one manuscript (forthcoming) on urban planning in the context of markets. Dr. Ding also published three books in Chinese on urban economics and planning.

Chengri Ding serves on the Board of Directors of International Property Tax Institute since 2006. He is invited foreign expert for China Development Bank, and expert review for World Bank’s AAA Land Policy Project.

Chengri Ding initiated and orchestrated the establishment of China Program for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy as well as the University of Maryland in 2003. He has been managing, directing, and leading the China Program since 2001. The Program is fully established and working with DRC, SAT, MOF, MOC, MLR, many universities and research institutes such as Peking and Zhejiang. One of the collaborated areas that prove to be very fruitful and influential is his deep engagement and involvement in property tax development in China. Project reports have been widely circulated even among top leaders.

 

 

 

This Sawyer Seminar, funded by the Mellon Foundation, includes a year-long series of working group meetings
and mini-conferences on the central theme of globalization and the land. It is hosted by UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.