She visited Stanford University as a visiting scholar for one year in 2013. Her research areas include the Ecosystem Services Assessment, Land-use/land-cover Impacts Assessment, Environmental Information System, and Ecological Modeling and Analysis. As a leading scientist, she has presided some projects granted by the Natural Sciences Foundation of China, Natural Science Fund Project, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, etc. Numerous articles and studies of hers have been published in Journals, Books, and Workshops, among which, the book named "Identification and Assessment of Ecosystem Services", published in 2011, is widely used as the reference for Ecology, Environment Science and Resource Science, etc.