The People's Armed Forces College of Zhejiang Gongshang University is the only full-time provincial-level ordinary institution of higher learning approved by the Zhejiang provincial government in 2000 (formerly known as the People's Armed Forces Department of Zhejiang University of Political Science and Law Management and the People's Armed Forces Department of Hangzhou Commercial College), which is under the dual leadership of the provincial government and the provincial military region and implements militarized management. Located by the West Lake, just across a mountain from the famous Lingyin Temple, the environment is elegant. The college has a specialty of People's Armed Forces Department, which recruits students for the whole province and mainly trains full-time people's armed cadres in townships (towns, streets). The academic system is four years with a bachelor's degree.