Dalian University of Foreign Languages, located in the beautiful coastal city of Dalian, is a provincial foreign language institution in Liaoning Province with the authority to confer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. The university was founded in 1964 under the kind care of Premier Zhou Enlai and was renamed Dalian University of Foreign Languages in 2013. The university has 21 teaching institutions, 33 undergraduate programs, 24 master's degrees, and offers doctoral programs for cultivating high-level talents in Northeast Asia Diplomacy and Foreign affairs.
Dalian University of Foreign Languages is an important institution for teaching Chinese as a foreign language in China and one of the first universities in China to offer undergraduate programs in Chinese language. Dalian University of Foreign Languages is not only the test center of the Chinese National Proficiency Test [HSK] in Dalian, but also the recipient of the Chinese Government Scholarship, Confucius Institute Scholarship, Liaoning Provincial Government Scholarship and Dalian Municipal Government Scholarship. Since its establishment 30 years ago, the Institute has trained more than 15,000 long-term international students from over 60 countries. In 2017, it received 1,806 long-term and short-term international students from 56 countries.
