October 6, 2025 – Shanghai Daily walked with me and made a video report and article:
Walking Toward a Sustainable Future: Reconnecting Rural China and the Netherlands
July 31, 2025 – A first academic paper about our research has been published:
Hemel, Z., den Hartog, H., & Saygi, G. (2025). Making time to walk again: (re)introducing walking as an inclusive research method in spatial planning. Cities & Health, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2025.2523711
January 13, 2025 – Read my report on the Dutch-language website VNC:
July, 2025 – Read my report on the Dutch-language website Archined:
Rurale revitalisatiepraktijken, learning from Zhejiang
December 29, 2024 – Read my report on the Chinese platform 澎湃新闻 / The Paper:
乡村步道的社会治理创新：中荷比较的视角 (Social Governance Innovation of Rural Trails: A Comparative Perspective between China and the Netherlands)
November 29, 2024 – Read my report on the Chinese platform Sixthtone:
A Walk Through China’s New Model Countryside
May 13, 2024 – Our research has been featured in the Economics section of the Dutch newspaper NRC:
December 3, 2023 – Our research has been featured in Shanghai Daily:
Dutch researcher explores the future of rural China with his feet
乡村足迹 Rural Footprints 