LiJuan Su

Academic Honors & Awards

• Research on the Model and Path of Innovative Development of Industrial Parks and Development Zones in Gansu Province, Excellent Achievements of Think Tank Topics of the Research Office of the Party Committee of Gansu Provincial Committee, 2017, Main Member
• First Prize in the Gansu Province Higher Education Institutions Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition
• Second Prize in the Gansu Province Higher Education Institutions Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition
• First Advisor, National Third Prize, 18th National University Student Competition on Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Social Practice and Science & Technology, 2025
• Instructor, National Third Prize, National Undergraduate Tax Risk Management Case Competition, 2025
• Longji Teaching Innovation Award, Lanzhou University, Oct 2024 (Awarded to the team; ranked 1/5)

Contact Information

Education Background

Economic Geography

Research Interests

Regional energy and environment, Green Finance, etc.

Academic Positions & Professional Titles

Professor of Regional energy and environment Economics, School of Economics, Lanzhou University

Editorial & Reviewer Experience

1.Editorial Board Memberships

2.Regular Reviewer for Top Journals

• “Resources Policy” [2024 – Present]
• “Energy” [2024 – Present]
• “Journal of Environmental Management” [2024 – Present]
• “Energy Strategy Reviews” [2024 – Present]
• “Environmental Science and Pollution Research” [2024 – Present]

Representative Publications

1.Electricity Pricing Mechanism and High-Quality Economic Development under the “Dual Carbon” Goals. Economic Science Press.2025. First author.
2.Technology innovations impact on carbon emission in Chinese cities: exploring the mediating role of economic growth and industrial structure transformation. Environmental Science and Pollution.2023. First author.
3.Can the Environmental Rights Trading Market Induce Better ESG Performance of Heavy Polluting Enterprises? — Empirical Evidence Based on Carbon Emission Trading. Journal of Northwest Normal University (Social Sciences Edition). 2023. First Author.
4.Environmental Regulations and Chinese Energy Sustainability: Mediating Role of Green Technology Innovations in Chinese Provinces. sustainability 2023. First author
5Analysis of Regional Differences and Spatial Spillover Effects of Agricultural Carbon Emissions in China, Heliyon. 2023. First author
6.Spatial Agglomeration of Financial Leasing and Corporate Basic Structure, North China Finance. 2022. First author
7.Natural resources and environmental quality: Exploring the regional variations among Chinese provinces with a novel approach, Resources Policy,2020,5/7,
8.More than the resource curse: Exploring the nexus of natural resource abundance and environmental quality in northwestern China, Resources Policy,2020,5/5,
9.Investigating the myth of smokeless industry: environmental sustainability in the ASEAN countries and the role of service sector and renewable energy. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.2021. Corresponding Author.
10.Looking for asymmetries and nonlinearities: The nexus between renewable energy and environmental degradation in the Northwestern provinces of China. Journal of Cleaner Production.2020. Corresponding Author
11.The Nexus between Tourism and Environmental Degradation in the Lower Middle-Income Southeast Asian Economies. Journal of Cleaner Production.2019. Corresponding Author
12.Research on Trade Integration and Economic Growth under the Background of the Silk Road Economic Belt: Based on Data from China and the Five Central Asian Countries. Journal of Lanzhou University (Social Sciences Edition), 2017. First author
13.Leisure Agriculture Development and Management. Southwest University of Finance and Economics Press. 2015. Co-author