Ningbo Xiaoshi High School is located in the city center of Ningbo, a coastal city in Zhejiang Province. It was established in 1912 and was immediately well respected. Since liberation, the school has been widely recognized as a top school in Zhejiang Province. Its honors have grown from being named a “Key School in the Province” to one of the “Best Key Schools in the Province”, to “the Best First-Class Key School in the Province.” In 1999 the Province chose Xiaoshi as one of two “Bases for Creative Teaching of Science,” and it was chosen to be the “Experimental School of Modern Teaching Techniques” by the National Ministry of Education in 2000. In 2005, 2007 and 2009, Xiaoshi won the honor for three years in a row as one of the “100 Famous Schools in China”.