Shaobo Wang

18840817152@163.com; wshb@lzu.edu.cn

Urban Planning

Nanjing University

Associate Professor of Regional Economics, School of Economics, Lanzhou University

Regional Economics; Transportation Economics; Urban and Regional Development

• 2024, CTTI Outstanding Achievement (First Author)
• 2022, Third Prize of Natural Science of Liaoning Province (Second Author)
• 2022, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Academy International Seminar on Innovation Management, Information and Production, Outstanding Paper Award (Second Author)
• 2019, Outstanding Paper Award at the Annual Academic Conference of the Economic Geography Professional Committee of the Geographical Society of China (First Author)
• 2024, Second Prize of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Qinhuangdao City (Third Author)

School of Architecture and Urban Planning

Editorial Board Memberships

• [Transportation Safety and Environment], Editorial Board Member, [2025– 2029]

Regular Reviewer for Top Journals

• [Nature Communications], [2024 – Present]
• [Cities], [2023 – Present]
• [Habitat International], [2023 – Present]
• [Journal of Geographical Sciences], [2023 – Present]
• [Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy], [2023 – Present]

Key Publications

• Shaobo Wang,Xiaolong Luo.The evolution of government behaviors and urban expansion in Shanghai. Land Use Policy.2022.114,105973
• Shaobo Wang,Yutao Zhou, Jianke Guo,Kunyao Xu. Assessing the joint economic effect of high-speed rail and enclave parks in the Yangtze River Delta region.Habitat International,2024,145,103020.
• Jianke Guo,Tianqi Feng,Shaobo Wang,Yafeng Qin,Xuhui Yu,2024.Shipping network vulnerability assessment integrated with geographical locations, Transport Part D:Transport and Environment,130,104166.
• Shaobo Wang,Yutao Zhou.Did high speed rail accelerate the development oftourism economy? - Empirical analysis from Northeast China.Transport Policy,2023,11(114):25-35.
• Shaobo Wang,Xiaolong Luo,Mi Tang.Post-suburbanization in Qingpu New Town: Process and Formation Mechanism[J].Journal of Geographical Sciences.2023, 33(7): 1461-1481.
• Yutao Zhou,Wei Duan ,Shaobo Wang.Urban information flow networks, service industry agglomeration and their heterogeneous interactive effects: Evidence from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area[J].Cities.2025,106285

Research Grants

• National Natural Science Foundation of China "Reconstruction of production space under the spatial effects of high-speed rail across cities—A case study of co-built parks in different locations in the Yangtze River Delta (42101160)"
• South China Subtropical and Tropical Natural Resources Monitoring Key Laboratory, Ministry of Natural Resources: Research on the multidimensional simulation, driving mechanisms, and governance strategies of spatial structure evolution in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao urban agglomeration from the perspective of flow space
• Chinese Academy of Sciences Think Tank Young Talent Program Project "Research on the industrial innovation efficiency and improvement paths of national-level new areas in China (20220615ZZ07110122)"
• Gansu Provincial Youth Science and Technology Fund Project "Research on the spatial pattern, characteristics, and driving mechanisms of county-level population migration in Gansu Province under the new normal (21JR7RA523)"
• Gansu Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project "Study on the co-construction model and governance strategies of parks in Gansu Province (2022YB010)"