Xi 'an Academy of Fine Arts, located in Xi City, Shaanxi Province, is a fine arts institution, a "first-class university in China" in Shaanxi Province, a provincial-level high-level university in Shaanxi Province, a demonstration base for red classic art education in institutions of higher learning of the Ministry of Education, a northwest animation education base of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, the third fine arts institute with the right to confer doctoral degrees in China, and the first batch of masters and bachelors in China.