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The forerunner of the Beijing Contemporary Music Academy is the Beijing Folk Music Training Center, which was founded in April 1993. In June 1996, theBeijingModernMusicalAcademywas set up via an admission from the Education Committee of Beijing.

-- Duties and Tasks

The academy hopes to develop into a comprehensive conservatory for cultivating intellectuals of modern pop music, supplementing intellectuals of folk music and serious music enthusiasts. Through systematic education, the academy intends to enhance China's modern music, especially pop music, and lead pop music to a healthy development.

-- Establishment

The academy, which offers secondary technical training for three years and higher technical training for two years, has a total of seven departments: song and dance, vocal music, jazz and pop music, western music, folk music, composition and sound recording.