Dr. Aijun Qiu, Deputy Director-General and Research Fellow, China Center for Urban Development, National Development and Reform Commission; Consultant to the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB); Executive Director, China Society of Urban Economy. Previously in the State Commission for Structural Reform, she took charge of projects of small town and community development in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Children's Fund. Her research fields cover small-town development, urbanization development, urbanization policy and urban planning. She led international projects with the WB, the ADB, and other international institutions, pre-draft projects of the Beijing Twelfth Five Year Plan and development planning for urban governments. She was involved with initial policy research on small towns, migrant workers, and urbanization by the Central Government. She accomplished a series of research reports, such as Development Strategy for Chinese Small Towns (2007), Comparative Research on Civic Engagement in Urban Planning (2010), Planning for Healthy Small Town’s Growth (2012), and Policy Research on Options of Chinese Urbanization Strategies (2013), all granted with provincial-level research awards.
She has long been dedicated to policy research on urbanization, small-town development, and urban management. She has been providing initial research consultancy on national urbanization policies; consultancy on urban development policies, strategies, and projects evaluation for local governments apart from leading the formulation of local urban development plans; and policy consultancy to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and other international organizations as an urbanization expert. qiuaijun@ccud.org.cn