Ruan Yisan Heritage Foundation
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The Ruan Yisan Heritage Foundation is a non-governmental, non-profit organization created on June 9, 2006, "to support and promote urban heritage conservation in China. It is a private foundation supervised by the Shanghai Administration Bureau of NGOs and Shanghai Municipal Urban Planning Administration Bureau."[1] The Foundation is a member of the International National Trusts Organisation.[2]
Founder Ruan Yisan is a former professor of urban planning at Tongji University of Shanghai and director of the National Research Center for Historic Cities in Shanghai.[3] Nisan was awarded the renowned Henry Hope Reed Award in 2014.[4]