After teaching at the Changshu City Experimental Primary School in Jiangsu Province from 1999-2002, I worked as the branch President of the Shanghai Wei Xun Education Center until 2006. From 2007, I have worked as a Designer and Project Manager at the NITA Design Group where I am involved in the design of projects for the active promotion of the low carbon landscape concept. I am a member of Greenpeace.

By creating rooftop gardens, we seek to reduce heat, smog and energy consumption as well as promote local food production and enhance the quality of life in Shanghai. By September 30, 2012, we will plant rooftop gardens over an area of about 10,000 square metres in three Shanghai Project neighborhoods. We aim to assemble a network of up to 300 volunteers who will participate in the project, secure three major sponsors and set up a club with a ‘vegetable and fruit bar’ where volunteers and other urban garden enthusiasts can meet. We will assemble a small team of professional V-Roof landscape designers, and hire and train 20-30 gardeners to oversee our rooftop gardens. We are keen to develop our capacity to expand our operations. In the longer term, we aim to create gardens on 200,000-300,000 square meters of rooftops in Shanghai and expand the project to other Chinese cities, turning V-Roof into a successful business.