About the Authors

Xinkai Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinkai Wang, Zhirong Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Design, Ningbo Tech University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Zhirong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinkai Wang, Zhirong Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

wzhirong@nit.net.cn

Affiliation School of Design, Ningbo Tech University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Yao Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ YW, QZ, TZ and JY also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Design, Ningbo Tech University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Qianqian Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

‡ YW, QZ, TZ and JY also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Design, Ningbo Tech University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Tengyue Zhang

Roles Investigation

‡ YW, QZ, TZ and JY also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Design, Ningbo Tech University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Jia Yao

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ YW, QZ, TZ and JY also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Design, Ningbo Tech University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

on behalf of The Rural Development and Ecological Technology Research Institute

Membership of the Rural Development and Ecological Technology Research Institute is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.