China Academy of Fine Arts is the first comprehensive national art institution in China, which was jointly established by the Ministry of Culture and Zhejiang Province. It is a comprehensive fine arts college with the most comprehensive disciplines and neat scale in China, one of the earliest fine arts universities in China, and the earliest institution of higher learning to implement design. It is also the birthplace of the earliest art revolutionary group in China, and a comprehensive fine arts college with the most comprehensive disciplines and the most tidy scale in the field of plastic arts in China. It has three campuses, spanning Hangzhou and Shanghai, covering an area of 1000 mu. More than 8000 students, teachers 1000. Full-time senior title 8 1, deputy senior title 138, intermediate title 177. The college has two main disciplines: fine arts and design art, which have been awarded doctoral and master's degrees by the Ministry of Education.
The college has a school of modeling and a school of design. The School of Modeling has departments of Chinese painting, calligraphy, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, comprehensive art, new media art, modeling foundation and art history. The school of design has visual communication department, industrial design department, ceramic department, dyeing and weaving clothing design department, environmental art department, architecture department and design foundation department; In addition, there are international education college, public art college, Shanghai Design Art Branch, continuing education college, art design vocational and technical college, affiliated secondary art school and other teaching institutions.