Personal Profile：

Jing Liu, Ph.D., associate professor of China University of Mining and Technology. She graduated from Nanjing University with a Ph.D. in Geography in September 2020 and joined the School of Geography and Ocean Science at Nanjing University in October 2020 as a research associate. In September 2023, she joined the School of Public Policy & Management at China University of Mining and Technology as an associate professor.Associate Professor Liu is mainly engaged in teaching and research work in areas such as food security and farmland protection, land resource utilization and management, comprehensive land consolidation and spatial optimization, etc. At present, she has published over 40 academic papers, including 12 papers as the first author in Journal of Rural Studies, Land Use Policy, Applied Geography, Journal of Cleaner Production, Science of the Total Environment,Acta Geographica Sinica, Geographical Research, Scientia Geographica Sinica, and Journal of Natural Resources, etc., many of which were highly cited/high-impact papers selected by Web of Science/ CNKI. She has presided over six projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China, Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,Shuangchuang Project of Jiangsu Province, and Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, Ministry of Natural Resource, etc. She has also been awarded honors such as National Outstanding Youth Thesis in Human Geography (2023), Excellent Doctoral Dissertation at Nanjing University (2022), First Prize in Science and Technology at Jiangsu Land Science Society (2021), Outstanding Graduate at Nanjing University (2020), and National Scholarship for Doctoral Students (2019), etc.

Research interests:

Food security and farmland protection, land resource utilization and management, rural transformation and spatial governance, land consolidation and spatial optimization, etc.

Research projects:

1.Leader of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 42201269, Influence of cultivated land fragmentation on sustainable intensification of cultivated land in the Yangtze River Delta and its regulation, 2023.01-2025.12, Under research.

2.Leader of Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China, 22YJC0630087，Study on optimal control of cultivated land fragmentation in economically developed areas considering functional effects and environmental adaptation, 2022.03-2025.03, Under research.

3.Leader of Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, BK20210192, Obstacle mechanisms and optimization regulation ofsustainable intensification of land space in economically developed areas: based on the coupling perspective of "function-efficiency", 2021.07-2024.06,Under research.

4.Leader of Shuangchuang Project of Jiangsu Province, JSSCBS20210024, The characteristics, processes, and obstacles of sustainable intensification of national land space, 2021.09-2023.08，Completed.

5.Leader of Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Exploitation and Protection, Ministry of Natural Resource, 2021CZEPK09, The characteristics, processes, and obstacles of sustainable intensification of cultivated land in economically developed areas: a case study of Jiangsu Province, 2022.01-2023.12, Under research.

6.Leader of Nanjing University Innovation and Creative Program for PhD candidate, CXCY18-21, Spatial coupling differentiation and collaborative optimization utilization of land spatial utilization efficiency in developed eastern regions, 2019.01-2020.06, Completed.

Academic papers：

1.Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Weiyi, et al., 2022. Evolution of cultivated land fragmentation and

its driving mechanism in rural development: A case study of Jiangsu Province. Journal of Rural Studies, 91: 58-72. (SSCI Q1, Web of Science 2022 /2023highly cited articles)

2. Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Weiyi, et al., 2023. Assessing trade-offs and synergies among

multiple land use functional effciencies: Integrating ideal reference and key indicators for sustainable landscape management. Applied Geography, 158: 103737. (SSCI Q1)

3. Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Weiyi, et al., 2019. Influential factors and classification of

cultivated land fragmentation, and implications for future land consolidation: A case study of Jiangsu Province in eastern China. Land Use Policy. 88: 104185. (SSCI Q1)

4. Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Weiyi, et al., 2019. Spatial coupling differentiation and development

zoning trade-off of land space utilization efficiency in eastern China. Land Use Policy. 2019, 85: 310-327. (SSCI Q1, Web of Science 2019 highly cited article)

5. Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Li Hanbing, et al., 2022. Spatial-temporal changes and driving factors of

the coordinated relationship among multiple land use effciencies integrating stakeholders’ vision in eastern China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 336: 130406. (SCI Q1)

6. Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Weiyi, et al., 2020. A new framework of land use efficiency for the

coordination among food,economy and ecology in regional development. Science of the Total Environment. 710: 135670. (SCI Q1, Web of Science 2020 highly cited articles)

7.Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Weiyi, et al.2023. Characteristic evolution and trend prediction of

cultivated land landscape fragmentation in China from 1990 to 2020. Acta Geographica Sinica. 2023 78(09): 2163-2185.(EI)

8.Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Weiyi, et al. 2022.Influence mechanism of cultivated land

fragmentation on sustainable intensification and its governance framework. Acta Geographica Sinica. 77(11): 2703-2720. (EI)

9.Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Weiyi, et al. 2019. Evaluation of Cultivated Land Fragmentation and

Guidance of Land Consolidation at Provincial Level. Scientia Geographica Sinica. 39(05): 817-826.

10.Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Fan Yeting, et al. 2018. Rural residential land consolidation strategy

from a perspective synthesizing towns, villages and land parcels: A case study in Xinyi city, Jiangsu province. Geographical Research. 37(04): 678-694.

11.Liu Jing, Jin Xiaobin, Zhang Zhifei, et al. 2017. Comprehensive development and utilization

strategy of inefficient and idle railway land: Methods and cases study.Journal of Natural Resources. 32(03): 377-390.

12. Xu Weiyi, Jin Xiaobin, Liu Jing, Li Hanbing, Zhang Xiaolin, Zhou Yinkang. 2023.

Spatiotemporal evolution and the detection of key drivers in the resilience of cultivated land system in major grainproducing regions of China. Land Degradation & Development. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.4804. (SCI Q2)

13. Li Hanbing, Jin Xiaobin, Liu Jing, Feng Danyue, Xu Weiyi, Zhou Yinkang. 2022. Analytical

framework for integrating resources, morphology, and function of rural system resilience—An empirical study of 386 villages. Journal of Cleaner Production. 365: 132738. (SCI Q1)

14. Liang Xinyuan, Jin Xiaobin, Liu Jing, Yin Yanxing, Gu Zhengming, Zhang Junyi, Zhou

Yinkang. 2022. Formation mechanism and sustainable productivity impacts of non-grain croplands: Evidence from Sichuan Province, China. Land Degradation & Development. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4520.(SCI Q2)

15. Xu Weiyi, Jin Xiaobin,Liu Jing, Zhou Yinkang. 2021. Analysis of influencing factors of

cultivated land fragmentation based on hierarchical linear model: a case study of Jiangsu Province, China. Land Use Policy. 101: 105119. (SSCI Q1)

16. Xu Weiyi, Jin Xiaobin, Liu Jing, Yang Xuhong, Ren, Jie, Zhou Yinkang. 2021. Analysis of

spatio-temporal changes of forest biomass in China. Journal of Forestry Research. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-021-01299-8.(SCI Q2)

17. Xu Weiyi, Jin Xiaobin, Liu Jing, Zhou Yinkang. 2020. Impact of cultivated land

fragmentation on spatial heterogeneity of agricultural agglomeration in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 30(10): 1571-1589. (SCI Q2)

18.Li Hanbing, Jin Xiaobin, McCormick B P, Tittonell P, Liu Jing, Han Bo, Sun Rui, Zhou

Yinkang. 2023. Analysis of the contribution of land consolidation to sustainable poverty alleviation under various natural conditions. Land Use Policy. 133: 106871. (SSCI Q1)

19. Liang Xinyuan, Jin Xiaobin, Xu Xiaoxiao, Chen Hefeng, Liu Jing, Yang Xuhong, Xu Weiyi,

Sun Rui, Han Bo, Zhou Yinkang. 2023. Uncertainty in China’s food self-suffciency: A dynamic system assessment. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 40: 135–146. (SCI Q2)

20. Liang Xinyuan, Jin Xiaobin, Sun Rui, Han Bo, Liu Jing, Zhou Yinkang. 2021. A typical

phenomenon of cultivated land use in China's economically developed areas: Anti-intensification in Jiangsu Province. Land Use Policy. 102: 105223. (SSCI Q1)

21. Xu Weiyi, Jin, Jiaxin, Jin Xiaobin, Xiao, Yuanyuan, Ren, Jie, Liu, Jing, Sun Rui, Zhou

Yinkang. 2019. Analysis of changes and potential characteristics of cultivated land productivity based on MODIS EVI: a case study of Jiangsu Province, China. Remote Sensing. 11: 2041. (SCI Q2)

22. Yang Xuhong, Jin Xiaobin, Xiang Xiaomin, Fan Yeting, Liu Jing, Shan Wei, Zhou

Yinkang. 2019. Carbon Emissions induced by Farmland Expansion in China during the Past 300 Years. Science China: Earth Sciences. 62(2): 423-437. (SCI Q1)

Monographs:

1.Liu Jing. A Study on the Interaction of Multidimensional Utilization Efficiency of National

Land Space from the Perspective of Regional Expectations. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2022.

2.Jin Xiaobin,Liu Jing. Modern Geography Textbook at Nanjing University: Principles and

methods of comprehensive land consolidation.Beijing: Science Press, 2023 (In typesetting).

3.Jin Xiaobin, Xu Cuilan, Liu Jing, Sui Xueyan. Study on spatial-scale differences and

governance of cultivated land fragmentation. Beijing: Science Press, 2018.