Jintang School Site, Educational cultural heritage site in Zhejiang, China.

Jintang School Site is a two-storey building laid out around a square courtyard, shaped like the character 口. Its gatehouse is European in style, with a semicircular three-bay balcony carried on six large concrete columns. Walls are of staggered grey brick, the upper floor has wooden boards and iron railings, arches decorate the beams and columns, and the roof is covered in small grey tiles. The site now houses Jintang Vocational High School.

The school developed when Zhejiang province was modernizing its educational systems and seeking better teaching methods. It became a center where teachers were trained to work across the region.

The school was founded in 1909 by Wu Jintang, a Cixi native who had studied in Japan and named it after himself. It opened as a free two-grade primary school for children of his clan, and the fee waiver later covered the whole village and township. Alumni include calligrapher Sha Menghai, painter Chen Zhifo and flautist Zhao Songting.

The former school site now houses Jintang Vocational High School, so visits depend on the school's calendar rather than a separate museum opening. The main building sits in Guanhaiwei, Cixi, Zhejiang, and is a protected provincial and national heritage site. Look for the European-style gatehouse with its semicircular three-bay balcony on six concrete columns.

The site now houses Jintang Senior Vocational High School, and the gatehouse is the detail to look for: a European-style facade with a semicircular three-bay balcony carried on six large concrete columns, set in walls of staggered grey-blue bricks.