Dalian Maritime University

Dalian Maritime University (formerly Dalian Maritime College) is a national key university under the Ministry of Transport, a key university of the national "211 Project" and a national "Double First-Class" university. It is a university jointly built by the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Education, the State Oceanic Administration, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, the People's Government of Liaoning Province, and the People's Government of Dalian City. The school is known as the "cradle of navigators" and is a famous higher maritime institution in China. It is one of the few maritime institutions in the world recognized by the International Maritime Organization as "internationally renowned".

The development history of Dalian Maritime University represents the development of China's higher maritime education. The school was founded when the nation suffered from foreign humiliation and national fortune declined, and shouldered the historical mission of "saving navigation rights and revitalizing national fortune". Although it has gone through many twists and turns and hardships, it has always passed on the torch and continued to develop, cultivating a large number of pillars of the shipping industry and making important contributions to the revitalization and development of the national shipping industry.

Dalian Maritime University originated from the Ship Administration Department of Shanghai Higher Industrial School of the Ministry of Posts and Communications established in 1909. In 1911, the Shanghai Higher Merchant Marine School of the Ministry of Posts and Communications was established based on the Department of Naval Administration. In 1912, it was renamed Wusong Merchant Marine School. It was closed in 1915. After reopening in 1929, it was renamed Wusong Merchant Marine College of the Ministry of Communications. It was closed again in 1937. In 1939, it was reopened in Chongqing and renamed National Chongqing Merchant Marine College. In 1943, it was merged into the National Jiaotong University in Chongqing. In 1946, it was reopened in Shanghai and renamed National Wusong Merchant Marine College. In 1950, it merged with the Department of Maritime Management of Jiaotong University to form Shanghai Maritime College. In 1953, the Central People's Government decided to merge Shanghai Maritime College with the Northeast Navigation College, which originated from the Northeast Merchant Marine School in 1927, to form Dalian Maritime College. In the same year, the Fujian Maritime College, which originated from the Fisheries Department of Jimei School in 1920, was merged. In 1960, the school was designated as a national key university. In 1963, the State Council approved the implementation of semi-military management of the school's maritime majors. In 1983, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) established the Asia-Pacific International Maritime Training Center at the school. In 1985, the World Maritime University established a branch at the school. In 1994, the school was renamed Dalian Maritime University, and Comrade Jiang Zemin personally wrote the name of the school. In 1997, the school became a key university in the national "211 Project". In 1998, the school's quality management system passed the certification of the State Harbor Supervision Bureau and the Norwegian Classification Society (DNV), becoming the first university in China to introduce the ISO9001 quality management system into talent training quality management. In 2000, Dalian Maritime School was "classified for management". In 2017, the school entered the ranks of national "first-class universities and first-class disciplines" construction universities. Through continuous construction and development, the school has been at the forefront of similar institutions in the world in terms of school scale and school level.

The achievements of Dalian Maritime University and its reputation at home and abroad have been fully affirmed and highly praised by the central leadership. In 1993, Jiang Zemin, Wen Jiabao, Zeng Qinghong, Li Lanqing and other party and state leaders successively visited Dalian Maritime University. Comrade Jiang Zemin personally wrote an inscription for the school: "Be firm, rigorous, diligent, pioneering, and build a world-class higher maritime institution!" In 2009, the school successfully held the "China Higher Maritime Education and Dalian Maritime University 100th Anniversary" commemorative activities. Li Changchun, Zhang Dejiang, Liu Yandong, Chen Zhili and other party and state leaders sent letters or inscriptions to congratulate the school. Liu Yandong, Chen Zhili and other party and state leaders visited the school respectively.

Dalian Maritime University is located in the southwest of Dalian, a famous coastal city in northern China. The school covers an area of ​​1.36 million square meters and the school building area is 950,000 square meters. The school has a group of teaching and experimental buildings with complete facilities and functions for maritime majors, a maritime training and engineering practice center, a water survival training hall, a teaching harbor, a library, a swimming pool, a planetarium, etc.; it has more than 100 teaching and research laboratories such as a navigation simulation laboratory and a marine engine simulation laboratory, and has 2 ocean-going teaching practice ships.

Dalian Maritime University has 21 teaching and research institutions, including the School of Navigation, the School of Marine Engineering, the School of Marine Electrical Engineering, the School of Information Science and Technology, the School of Transportation Engineering, the School of Shipping Economics and Management, the School of Navigation and Ocean Engineering, the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, the School of Artificial Intelligence, the School of Law, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Public Administration and Humanities and Arts, the School of Marxism, the School of Science, the International Joint College, the Department of Sports Work, the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the School of Continuing Education (School of Advanced Transportation Training), the Center for Navigation Training and Engineering Practice, the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (Institute of Shipping Development), and the International Student Education Center. There are more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students in the school, and foreign students studying for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees are also enrolled. Over the past 60 years since the merger, the university has trained more than 100,000 senior professional and technical personnel of various types for the country, most of whom have become the backbone of my country's shipping industry.

Dalian Maritime University has 54 undergraduate majors, 9 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 21 first-level master's degree authorization points, 7 postdoctoral mobile stations, and 14 master's professional degree authorization categories. The school currently has 2 national key disciplines, 14 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 2 provincial key cultivation disciplines, and engineering disciplines and computer science are among the top 1% in the world in ESI; 2 national engineering research centers, 2 national science and technology cooperation bases, 11 provincial professional and technical innovation centers and engineering research centers, 26 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, and 6 provincial key research bases in humanities and social sciences; 1 national innovative talent training demonstration base, 1 national collaborative innovation center, 5 majors included in the National Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, 1 national excellent legal talent education and training base, 6 national characteristic professional construction sites, 11 national first-class professional construction sites, 1 national engineering education professional certification major, 1 national teaching team, 1 national talent training model innovation experimental zone, 1 national quality course, 1 national advanced textbook construction collective, 3 IMO demonstration courses, 1 national bilingual demonstration course, 6 national quality video open courses, 1 national quality resource sharing course, 3 national quality online open courses, 18 national first-class undergraduate courses, 6 national Teaching Achievement Award, 4 national engineering practice education centers, 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 national off-campus practice education bases for college students, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 2 national demonstration virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, 129 Ministry of Education industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects, 20 Liaoning Province first-class professional construction sites, 11 provincial characteristic (demonstration) majors, 7 provincial undergraduate comprehensive reform pilot majors, 4 provincial undergraduate engineering talent training model reform pilot majors, 2 provincial undergraduate key support majors, 7 provincial advantage and characteristic majors, 1 provincial curriculum system internationalization pilot major, 5 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education reform pilot majors, 30 provincial first-class undergraduate education demonstration majors, 19 provincial quality courses, 17 provincial quality resource sharing courses, 8 provincial teaching achievement awards, 10 provincial teaching teams, 1 national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" teaching master, 38 provincial teaching masters, 4 Liaoning Province professional leaders, 17 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 15 provincial college student practice education bases, 19 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching projects.

Dalian Maritime University has a faculty team with good overall quality, reasonable hierarchical structure and relative stability. There are 1,599 full-time teachers, including 366 professors, 147 full-time doctoral supervisors, 47 second-level professors, 99 third-level professors, and a large number of outstanding young and middle-aged teachers. In the fields of marine traffic engineering, navigation information engineering, ship intelligence, ship power system and energy-saving technology, ship machinery repair engineering, communication and information system, marine environmental protection, maritime regulations and other fields, a group of well-known experts, professors with profound professional theory and strong scientific research ability and young backbones with active academic thinking and innovative spirit are concentrated. The school also hired 11 shared academicians and 142 visiting professors. By inviting well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad to come to the school to carry out substantive work and exchanges, the teachers and students of Dalian Maritime University can get close to the cutting-edge theories of various disciplines, further broaden their horizons and liven up the academic atmosphere.

Dalian Maritime University attaches great importance to foreign exchanges and inter-school exchanges. Since the reform and opening up, the university has established formal cooperative relations with 152 internationally renowned institutions and organizations in 43 countries and regions, including Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Australia, Sweden, Egypt, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, etc., and has maintained substantial contacts in cooperative education, teacher-student exchanges, and cooperative scientific research. The scope of cooperation is constantly expanding. In March 2005, the "Master's Program in Maritime Safety and Environmental Management" jointly organized by the school and the World Maritime University enrolled students for the first time, further improving the school's international cooperative education level. The school established our overseas campus at the International Maritime Engineering College in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and began to enroll students in Sri Lanka in 2007, realizing the first export of my country's higher maritime education. The school has also maintained long-term cooperative relations with many international organizations and institutions, including: International Maritime Organization (IMO), International Labor Organization (ILO), International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU), Global Maritime Training Association (GlobalMET), International Maritime Teachers Association (IMLA), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), International Shipping Federation (ISF), International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), Baltic Maritime Council (BIMCO), Lloyd’s Register and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and other world-renowned shipping companies. The school also actively carries out educational innovation, continuously expands school channels, and introduces educational resources.

After more than a hundred years of wind and rain, the fragrance of peaches and plums continues the glorious chapter. Under the correct leadership of the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Education, and the provinces and cities, Dalian Maritime University will not forget its original intention, keep its mission in mind, practice the school motto of "learning from all rivers and benefiting the world with virtue", inherit the spirit of "firmness, rigor, diligence, and pioneering", carry forward the tradition of "working together, arduous and extraordinary, scientific navigation, and patriotism as the root", adhere to the characteristics of shipping, strengthen the connotation development, and strive towards the goal of building a world-class maritime university!

(The above statistical data is as of September 2021)