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Dalian University

The history of Dalian University can be traced back to Dalian University, which was founded in April 1949 (Dalian University was revoked in July 1950, and Dalian University of Technology Branch was established in October 1978, which later became Dalian University of Technology Branch, November 1983. The Dalian Branch of Dalian Institute of Technology was renamed as Dalian University independently in March 1948, the Kanto Grammar School established in March 1948 (later Dalian Teachers College), Luda City Health School established in October 1950 (later Dalian Municipal Health School) School). In October 1987, Dalian University, Dalian Teachers College, and Dalian Health School were combined to form a new Dalian University. Dalian University set up a college of engineering, a normal college, and a medical college. In December 2008, Dalian Railway Health School was merged into Dalian University.


Over the years, under the guidance of advanced university culture, Dalian University has adhered to the school-running goal of "city universities serve the city and local universities serve the place", adhering to the core concept of "making everyone successful and making everyone happy", and carrying forward the "establishment". The company’s spirit of cultivating morality, advocating learning, inclusiveness, innovation and transcendence, advocates the excellent school spirit of “advocating academics and advocating science”, unites and strives, insists on “contributions for support and development”, and has achieved leapfrog development. It has developed into a comprehensive general higher education institution with 10 disciplines including law, economics, education, literature, art, history, science, engineering, medicine, and management. Its main school-running indicators and comprehensive school-running strength have entered the forefront of universities in Liaoning Province. In the 2021 China University Rankings published by iResearch China Alumni Association, Dalian University ranks 169. The clinical medicine discipline of Dalian University is newly included in the 2021 ESI Ranking of Mainland Chinese Universities.


The school has more than 6,040 faculty members (including 2 affiliated hospitals). The school has more than 1,700 faculty members, including 164 senior vocational students, 19 doctoral supervisors, 480 teachers with doctoral degrees, and 1,005 full-time teachers. The school adheres to the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, implements the "Jinpu Scholars" series of plans, and vigorously strengthens the function of the "Dalian Talent Reserve Base". At present, the school has 1 Changjiang scholar, 1 winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 1 national "Hundred-Ten Thousand Talents Project" 100-level candidate, 12 experts with special government allowances from the State Council, 1 national outstanding teacher, and the Ministry of Education New Century 2 talents, 1 climbing scholar in Liaoning Province, 8 special-appointed professors in Liaoning, 1 national-level teaching teacher, 21 provincial university teaching teachers award winners, 22 candidates for the Hundred Talents Project of Liaoning Province, outstanding in Liaoning Province 3 teachers, 7 outstanding experts in Liaoning Province, 3 top-notch young talents in the "Xing Liao Talents Program" of Liaoning Province, 2 teams of Huang Danian-style teachers from universities in Liaoning Province, 6 members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, including 3 vice-chairmen .


Dalian University currently has 19 first-level academic master's degree awarding sites, 3 second-level academic master's degree awarding sites, and 6 professional master's degree awarding sites. The school has a total of 7 provincial key (cultivation) disciplines, 8 disciplines were selected as the project of "Improving the Core Competitiveness of Colleges and Universities Characteristic Discipline Construction Project" in Liaoning Province, 2 disciplines were selected as the first-class characteristic disciplines of Liaoning Province, and 1 discipline was selected as the first-class disciplines of Liaoning Province . The school has 29 colleges, 63 undergraduate majors, and 2 tertiary A-level affiliated hospitals. The school currently has more than 16,000 full-time students (including more than 1,400 graduate students).


The school covers an area of 1.246 million square meters, a building area of 581,000 square meters, and a collection of more than 1.8 million books. The gymnasium, which is composed of a comprehensive gymnasium, a central gymnasium, a tennis hall, and a swimming pool, covers an area of 20,700 square meters, and its sports facilities meet international competition standards.


The school takes talent training as its fundamental task, and continuously deepens the reform of the talent training model. The school has 5 national characteristic majors, 7 first-class majors, 2 new engineering construction and excellence plan projects, 1 national college student quality education base, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 2 national quality online open courses, 6 national first-class courses, 1 national bilingual demonstration course, 3 national quality video open courses, 2 national "Twelfth Five-Year" planning textbooks, 1 national practical education base, national virtual simulation experiment teaching project 1 and 1 national-level crowd-creation space.


The school promotes career development with scientific and technological innovation, and its scientific research strength has been significantly enhanced. The school has 1 post-doctoral research workstation, 1 academician workstation, 1 innovation team from the Ministry of Education and 6 innovation teams from Liaoning Province, 3 national and local joint engineering laboratories, 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and universities in Liaoning Province 1 major science and technology platform, 3 collaborative innovation centers in Liaoning Province, 31 provincial key laboratories, engineering technology centers, and humanities and social science key research bases, and 27 municipal key laboratories and engineering technology centers. In recent years, the school has been in the forefront of universities in the province in undertaking national projects. In 2020, the full-caliber scientific research funding will reach 190 million yuan; it has undertaken 3 major research projects and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 1 outstanding youth science fund project and other landmark projects. The school has successively approved 7 national science and technology awards, covering natural science awards, technological invention awards and science and technology progress awards, and has received nearly a hundred provincial and ministerial science and technology awards. Since 2018, the school has won the first prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of Natural Science of Liaoning Province, the second prize of Technology Invention of the Ministry of Education, the second prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology and 12 other provincial and ministerial awards for high quality. Won 1 second prize and 3 third prizes of the 6th Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Award of Liaoning Province. The 7th Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Award of Liaoning Province has 1 second prize and 3 third prizes. The 8th Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Award of Liaoning Province has 4 second prizes and 3 third prizes. The school published SCI, SSCI, EI, CSSCI, etc. searched more than 1,800 papers, 674 authorized invention patents, 4 international patent authorizations, 19 intellectual property transfers and conversions were completed in 2020, and the contract amount was more than 4 million yuan. One national defense scientific research achievement in the field of computer science and technology participated in the National "Twelfth Five-Year" Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition, and 14 military-civilian integration scientific and technological innovation achievements participated in the "First Military-civilian Integration Achievement Exhibition in Liaoning Province". The school was rated as a national intellectual property pilot unit and a national technology transfer demonstration institution.


The school takes full advantage of the comprehensive local university and multi-disciplinary integration, and closely focuses on the development of strategic emerging industries in Dalian. It forms a superior discipline group led by information science, life science, material science, humanities and social sciences, and actively serves Dalian. The construction of the “two pioneer areas” has promoted the development of industries such as information, software, manufacturing, materials, medicine, tourism, free trade, and modern agriculture. At the same time, it has provided powerful technology and intelligence for smart Dalian, smart education, smart medical and other people’s livelihood projects. Support. The school pays attention to the construction of think tanks and actively connects with local economic and social development. Nearly 100 people serve as think tank experts in various industries in the country, Liaoning Province, and Dalian. Leader's instructions and relevant departments' adoption. Actively explore and practice in the aspects of sending culture to the countryside, poverty alleviation with science and technology, and popularizing science, which are welcomed and affirmed by all sectors of society.


The school pays attention to the internationalization of education, actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation, and attracts overseas intelligence to serve our school and Dalian City. It has established friendly cooperative relations with 138 universities, scientific research institutions and well-known enterprises in 18 countries including Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, etc., and has carried out Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, teachers and graduate students with many universities. Joint training, short-term student exchanges and other international talent training cooperation, international scientific research cooperation, think tank cooperation with multiple overseas teams, etc. Every year a group of well-known overseas experts are invited to our school for exchanges, and some experts are hired as guest professors . The school actively responded to the “One Belt One Road” call, undertook to build the “Indian Ocean Island Countries Research Center of the Ministry of Education”, and established Confucius Institutes at the University of Seychelles and the University of Comoros. The continuous enrichment of the school's educational connotation and the continuous improvement of international reputation and influence have also contributed to the rapid development of Dalian's international city construction.


At present, Dalian University is taking the opportunity of the Ministry of Education's "Double First Class" construction to enter a new stage of development with the goal of accelerating the creation of a "domestic first-class research and application-oriented local university". The school is guided by Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, adheres to the leadership of the party, adheres to the direction of socialist education, fully implements the party’s educational policy, and implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents. The school adheres to the "four comprehensive" strategy and "five development concepts" to lead the overall work of the school, with discipline construction as the leader, connotation development as the main line, focusing on improving the quality of education and serving local capabilities, and focusing on talent team building and cultural construction With the guarantee of party building, with "adjusting structure, building characteristics, strengthening management, and promoting service" as the core, comprehensively implement the development strategy of "cultural schools, rule of law, talents strengthening schools, quality schools, and unique characteristics". , Based in Dalian, serving Liaoning, facing the whole country, and going to the world, cultivate high-quality applied talents with a high sense of social responsibility, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, practical ability and international vision. In the next five years, the school will strive to achieve a breakthrough in the doctoral degree authorization unit, and several disciplines will enter the forefront of local universities in the country, and will basically build a domestic first-class research and application-oriented local university with distinctive characteristics and significant discipline advantages.