Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences will be renamed Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences. It is an ordinary full-time comprehensive institution of higher learning approved by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), and it is also a master's degree awarding unit. The school is located in Shaoxing, the first historical and cultural city in China. Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1996, which was formed by the merger of the former Shaoxing Normal University and Shaoxing College. Since then, Shaoxing Health School, Shangyu Normal School and Shaoxing Architectural Technical Secondary School have merged. Its predecessor can be traced back to Shanhui Primary School Normal School founded by 1909, and Mr. Lu Xun was once the inspector (principal) of Shanhui Normal School.