In 1952, by order of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the Department of Liberal Arts and the Department of Science were combined to form Shanxi Normal College, the School of Law was integrated into Renmin University of China in Beijing. The Department of Engineering was dismantled, and fragments absorbed into University of Science and Technology Beijing, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Taiyuan University of Technology. In 1959, Shanxi University was rebuilt on Taiyuan's Wucheng Street.