Professor Xu Xiangyang is passionate about teaching and diligently fulfills her duties as an educator. She has long been committed to cultivating high-quality and high-level students and young talents. She has been engaged in teaching management operations research, environmental policy analysis, and technology innovation and management for many years. She has twice won the Excellent Teaching Quality Award from the university and has been rated as Excellent three times in the university's annual assessments.

As the project leader, she has successively led and completed multiple research projects, including projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Fund, sub-projects of the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention and Control Joint Center (General Fund), the 2018 project of the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Program, Chinese government intergovernmental science and technology cooperation projects (7 projects), as well as various projects commissioned by local provincial science and technology departments, domestic and foreign universities, decision-making institutions, and enterprises.