Shaw Building is named after the philanthropist Shao Yifu, who donated all the buildings of Shaw.

Shaw building is a teaching and research building. The first Yifu Building was built in East China Normal University 1986.

According to incomplete statistics, by the end of 20 14 and 1, Mr. Shao Yifu had donated a total of 2.5 billion yuan to science, education, culture and health in the Mainland, and donated 60 13 projects, of which more than 80% were educational projects. More than 1000 schools have benefited from it. Teaching buildings, libraries, science and technology museums and other cultural, artistic and medical institutions named after Shao Yifu are all over China.