2. The Fine Arts Department of Xiangnan University was founded in 1975, which is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in Hunan Province to offer fine arts majors. In 2004, the Department of Fine Arts began to recruit undergraduate majors in fine arts, and in 2008, it was granted the right to award bachelor's degrees. At present, there are 560 students in this major, including 3 faculty members 1 person, 24 professional teachers, 7 professors 1 person, 7 associate professors, 6 lecturers, 7 teaching assistants and 2 visiting professors, among whom1person is a member teacher of China Artists Association and1person is a master's degree teacher. There are four teaching and research sections: Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor painting and design. It has a professional exhibition hall and three exhibition windows. It has excellent teaching facilities and an ecological garden-like teaching environment, including nearly 30 brand-new professional painting classrooms, 6 skylight classrooms with good lighting, 2 first-class computer design rooms, 1 Apple computer design room and 3 multimedia classrooms. The teaching and training venues are complete, with a total equipment value of 6,543,800 yuan. "Emphasis on foundation and strong ability" has always been our school-running philosophy and well-known school-running characteristics. In the past 30 years, the department has trained more than 2,000 professionals for the country, such as Zhang Yue, president of Hunan Changsha Yuanda Central Air Conditioning Co., Ltd., who ranked 23rd in the list of the world's richest people published by Forbes. Yin, the first master of fine arts education in China, the leader of the national research group of fine arts curriculum standards for primary and secondary schools, the doctoral supervisor and professor of Capital Normal University, has emerged a large number of outstanding designers, painters and fine arts teachers in primary and secondary schools.