Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, founded by the Communist Party of China in 1938, is the ‘cradle of new Chinese fine arts’, with the name and motto: ‘sensuality, seriousness, diligence and modesty’ defined by Mao Zedong. In 2019, the School of Art was included in China’s World First-Class Universities and First-Class Academic Disciplines Construction program. The university currently has two campuses in Shenyang and Dalian, with a total area of 958,000 m², with 7,478 full-time undergraduate and graduate students and 919 faculty members in twelve undergraduate majors, including Chinese painting, drawing, sculpture, product design, visual communication design, animation, photography, environmental design, fashion and costume design, arts and crafts, fine arts, and digital media arts.