With a century’s fine tradition of education, Hangzhou Normal University is bestowed with unique advantages in art education as well, boasting high-quality programs and research institutes such as “Music Education”a national program with distinction, “Fine Arts” a provincial key program and the Center for Artistic Studies of the Han-Dynasty Paintings a Provincial Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences. As a result, the faculty of art education of the university was granted the status of the Provincial Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences for Higher Education Institutions in 2008. The Base has been undertaking a number of research projects at both national and provincial levels in its 3 institutes, namely Art Education, Art Theories and Art History.