They finally came around to taking over Shaolin and the Shaolin village. They retired the now very old monk, who has been teaching and residing there for 50 years, with all honour and put an official in place that was to run the business of the Shaolin temple.

The current Abbot of Shaolin has been in place since around 2003. He or the Chinese government have just cleared all the schools and the village surrounding Shaolin allowing only one to be there, the official Chinese Government Shaolin Temple training School. All schools, some numbering up to 8000 students, have been moved to the nearby major city of Kerfeng ( possibly wrong spelling, right sound ). Shaolin and the area around it is being prepared to be possibly a tourist and martial art trap or a heritage site. Time will tell.