Liaoning University of Engineering and Technology

The school was founded in 1949 and was identified by the State Council as one of the 88 national key universities in the country in 1978. In 1981, it was approved as the first batch of master's degree awarding institutions, and in 1993, it was approved as a doctoral degree awarding institution and a conditional admission of international students. In 1996, it was renamed and upgraded from Fuxin Mining College to Liaoning University of Engineering and Technology. In 1999, it was approved to establish a postdoctoral research mobile station. In 2012, the Liaoning Provincial People's Government and the former State Administration of Work Safety signed an agreement to jointly build the school. In 2013, it was approved as a key construction university of the national "Basic Capacity Construction Project for Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China". In 2019, it was selected as one of the 10 domestic first-class universities that Liaoning Province focused on building.

The university currently has the Zhonghua Road Campus, Yulong Campus, and Longwan Campus of the Fuxin Campus and Huludao Campus, covering an area of ​​4,240 acres. There are 39,000 registered students, including 28,000 full-time doctoral students, master students, undergraduates, and international students. The university has focused on strengthening the "Double First-Class" construction, and has formed a discipline and professional structure system with engineering as the main focus and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as engineering, management, and science. It currently has 4 postdoctoral research stations, 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 20 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 10 professional degree authorization points; it has 1 national key cultivation discipline, 3 Liaoning Province first-class disciplines, and 7 provincial key disciplines; it has 11 national first-class majors, 8 national characteristic majors, 7 pilot majors of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, 10 Liaoning Province first-class majors, and 10 majors have passed the international engineering education certification; it has 1 national There are 6 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 6 national engineering practice education centers, and 15 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers; there is 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 1 national-local joint engineering research center, 1 national basic research center for safety production technology, 7 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation centers, and 1 scientific and technological research and development platform of the former State Administration of Work Safety; there are national university science and technology parks, national science and technology enterprise incubators, national technology transfer demonstration institutions, 2 major scientific and technological platforms of Liaoning Province’s colleges and universities, 17 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 5 provincial professional and technical innovation centers, 3 provincial engineering research centers, and 1 provincial social science base. There are more than 1,500 full-time teachers, including more than 800 teachers with senior professional titles and more than 1,300 teachers with master's degrees or above; there is 1 national teaching team, 11 Liaoning provincial teaching teams, 2 Huang Danian-style teaching teams, 2 high-level innovation and entrepreneurship teams of the Xingliao Talent Plan, 2 academicians of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 7 academicians of the two academies (dual appointment), 1 Yangtze River Scholar, 52 recipients of the State Council Special Government Allowance, 9 Liaoning Climbing Scholars, 19 Liaoning Distinguished Professors, and 17 Second-level Professors; 3 teachers have been identified as national candidates for the New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project, 1 teacher has been named a national outstanding teacher, 1 teacher has been selected as the first batch of Liaoning Provincial Academic Leaders, 21 teachers have been named provincial teaching masters, 30 teachers have been selected for the "Xingliao Talents" plan, and 112 teachers have been selected for the Liaoning Provincial Hundred Thousand Talents Project. The school has formed a distinctive culture guided by the core values ​​of socialism, with the "Sunstone Spirit" as the core, and with "family culture, harmony culture, integrity culture, and innovation culture" as the main content.

The school has always insisted on taking undergraduate education as the foundation of the school, building first-class undergraduate and first-class majors, and focusing on cultivating first-class applied innovative talents with firm ideals and beliefs, international vision and "Sunstone Spirit". In 2016, it was rated as one of the first 99 demonstration universities in the country for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform by the Ministry of Education. In 2017, it was rated as one of the top 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship by the Ministry of Education. It was rated as an advanced collective for graduate employment work in the country by the Ministry of Education for two consecutive times. In 2010, it was rated as one of the top 50 universities with typical experience in graduate employment in the country by the Ministry of Education. Since its establishment, the university has trained more than 140,000 outstanding graduates for the country, among whom more than 10 alumni have been elected as members of the Central Committee, alternate members and members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection; there are deputy secretaries-general of the State Council, dozens of leaders of national ministries and commissions, provincial party secretaries, governors, municipal party secretaries and mayors, 4 alumni have been elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, more than 30 alumni serve as party secretaries and presidents of well-known domestic universities; a large number of alumni serve as heads of large and medium-sized state-owned or private enterprises.

Liaoning University of Technology is holding high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, with fuller passion, sharper thinking, broader mind, more pragmatic measures, and more solid style, not forgetting the original intention, keeping in mind the mission, and comprehensively implementing the characteristic development strategy, quality improvement strategy, innovation-driven strategy, talent-strengthening strategy, and cultural leadership strategy, and striving to comprehensively build a distinctive high-level research and application university.