Ningbo Foreign Affairs School is a national key secondary vocational school directly under Ningbo Education Bureau to train international intermediate foreign-related talents. The school's predecessor was the Ningbo Staff Teacher Training Course, which was born in 1959.

Subsequently, after many adjustments in the school-running mode, Ningbo Foreign Affairs School, the first foreign-related secondary vocational school in Zhejiang Province, was established in 2002 with the three strategies of "internationalization, diversification and branding" and the school-running concept of "cultivating international talents based on international vision", relying on the teaching ability of English, Japanese, German, French and Korean. On September 20 10, the new foreign affairs school with European neoclassical architectural style, covering an area of 268 mu, was officially put into use. In order to reflect the architectural personality of the school and echo the orientation of the foreign affairs school, the new foreign affairs school embodies the European neoclassical style in the overall layout, architectural form, single facade style and human landscape design, laying a solid foundation for becoming a "symbolic, window-like and exemplary secondary vocational school in Ningbo". In 2006, Ningbo Literature and Art School was merged into Ningbo Foreign Affairs School and listed as Ningbo Literature and Art School independently.