Prof. Zhang has done lots of work to promote MSP theory and application research both in national and international jobs in the East and Southeast Asian area in the last ten years, including national, provincial and local level MSP projects in China and international level MSP cooperation with Thailand, South Korea and others. Prof. Zhang has more than twenty publications in domestic and international peer-reviewed academic journals and book/chapters. Currently, Prof. Zhang works at the Research Center for Coastal Science and Marine Planning at the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China. He also serves as the member of International Expert Group of the MSPglobal 2030 and a consultant for COBSEA/UNEP in Marine Spatial Planning.