Shenyang Ligong University

I. School History

Shenyang Ligong University was founded in 1948. It was the first undergraduate military industrial college established by our military in Northeast China to cultivate the urgently needed military industrial talents for new China. It was one of the "Seven Military Industrial Schools" of the People's Republic of China. It was formerly known as Northeast Military Industrial Specialized School, Shenyang Institute of Technology, etc. It was successively affiliated with the Northeast Military Industry Department of the People's Liberation Army of China, the Central Ordnance Industry Bureau, the Ministry of Ordnance Industry, the State Machinery Industry Commission, the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry, and China North Industries Group Corporation. It was transferred to Liaoning Province in 1999 and was renamed to its current name in 2004.

2. General Information

The school is located on the south bank of the scenic Hun River in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province, covering an area of 1.13 million square meters. It is a university jointly built by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and Liaoning Province. It is also a university jointly built by Liaoning Province and China North Industries Group Corporation and China South Industries Group Corporation. It is a pilot university for the Ministry of Education's "Outstanding Engineers Education and Training Program", a recipient of Chinese Government scholarships for international students, and a national defense education characteristic school. It is one of the first batch of "Digital Intelligence - University-Enterprise Collaborative Employment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Bases" designated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In its 77 years of educational practice, the school has always kept in mind the mission of higher education and cultivated a large number of high-quality national defense science and technology talents. A large number of graduates who are idealistic, courageous, skilled and innovative are widely distributed in various fields such as military industrial enterprises, ordnance research institutes and active-duty troops, and have grown into pillars of the national defense industry and the backbone of society, making significant contributions to the rejuvenation of the nation, the prosperity of the country, the modernization of national defense, economic construction and social progress.

3. The teaching staff

The school now has 1,671 staff members, with a high-level teaching staff led by dual-appointed academicians, with national-level high-end talents as the core and provincial-level outstanding talents as the backbone, and with a reasonable age structure. There are 1,161 full-time teachers, among whom 634 hold senior professional titles. There are 671 doctoral and master's degree supervisors. There are 14 national-level candidates of the "100,000 Talents Project" and the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talents", etc. 152 provincial-level talents such as provincial leading talents, outstanding experts and "Xingliao Talent Program"; 18 Huang Danyan-style teacher teams, teaching teams, research teams, etc. in provincial universities; 24 industry experts, including vice chairpersons of the Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education and members of various professional committees of the China Ordnance Society.

4. Discipline Construction

The university is a multi-disciplinary institution that focuses on engineering and combines science, economics, management, literature, law and art. There are 22 colleges (departments), 49 undergraduate programs, 12 first-level disciplines and 2 second-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, 1 self-established interdisciplinary subject and 1 second-level discipline outside the directory, and 7 master's professional degree categories. There is 1 doctoral program, 1 postdoctoral research station and 1 postdoctoral research workstation; Five national characteristic disciplines; One discipline was selected as a new round of "Double First-Class" construction discipline in Liaoning Province; One discipline has entered the top 1% of ESI globally.

5. Talent development

The school currently has more than 18,400 full-time students of all kinds, including more than 15,000 undergraduates and more than 3,400 doctoral and master's students. Centering on the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing talent, the school has made active explorations in the cultivation of high-quality applied talents, the renewal of teaching concepts, and the research of teaching methods. Five national first-class undergraduate program construction points, two characteristic program construction points, one comprehensive reform pilot program, and two outstanding engineer education and training program programs have been approved; 19 provincial first-class undergraduate program construction points; 11 national first-class undergraduate courses, 117 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, and 7 provincial model courses for ideological and political education. There are currently 14 national and provincial college students' practical education bases and engineering practice education centers; 11 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers; Five provincial virtual teaching and research rooms; 19 provincial-level demonstration bases for joint postgraduate training, innovation and academic exchange centers; 14 excellent textbooks of Liaoning Province and Ordnance Industry; 10 provincial modern industry colleges have been approved. Since 2021, the quality of undergraduate students has been continuously improving, the scale of postgraduate enrollment has significantly expanded, and the employment rate of graduates has remained above 92%.

6. Scientific research

In response to industry and local economic development, the school has continuously strengthened its characteristics, refined its main research directions, and significantly enhanced its research capabilities. Major projects of over 10 million yuan have emerged one after another, and research funds have risen in a stepwise manner. The school has established national-level platforms such as the National Shenyang China-Russia Science and Technology Cooperation Base, the National 863 Program Space Information Security Basic Technology Laboratory, and the National Science Popularization Education Base Ordnance Museum. 26 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, technology innovation centers, engineering research centers, technology research centers and other innovation platforms, 7 municipal key laboratories and 3 municipal proof-of-concept centers, 10 provincial think tanks and 4 municipal think tanks, A number of policy proposals have been endorsed by national leaders and provincial leaders such as the secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Committee and the governor.

7. Distinctive Features of the school

The school has a distinct national defense character. It is the chair unit of the Liaoning Ordnance Society, a member of the "B8 Collaborative Innovation Alliance", and a member of the China University Industry Association. The only weapons museum in Northeast China is a national, Liaoning Province and Shenyang City science popularization education base, a Liaoning Province comprehensive reform and Opening-up base for all-round education, a Liaoning Province national defense education base, a Liaoning Province patriotic education demonstration base, a Liaoning Province national security publicity, education and training base, and a Shenyang City patriotic education Base.

8. International exchanges

The school will leverage its cooperation with Russia to enhance exchanges and cooperation with countries along the Belt and Road Initiative. We have established stable partnerships with many universities and research institutions in Russia, Belarus, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Finland, Canada, Malaysia and other countries. As one of the first institutions in the country and the first in Liaoning Province to pass the "Quality Certification for International Students in China", the university has trained more than 8,000 international students from Russian-speaking countries. It has collaborated with many prestigious Russian universities to produce more than 700 students. Shenyang Ligong University Tomsk Polytechnic University International Engineering College, a non-independent legal entity of the Ministry of Education, enrolls nearly 300 students each year in four majors including mechanical design, manufacturing and automation. The Confucius Institute established by the university in collaboration with Tomsk State University of Russia has been recognized as a "Global Advanced Confucius Institute". The national "Shenyang China-Russia Science and Technology Cooperation Base" and the Liaoning Province "Russian Academician and Expert Workstation" actively provided intelligence introduction services for military and civilian research institutes and enterprises, and built the Shenyang Hunnan China-Russia Science and Technology Innovation City, which became the first science and technology park in Liaoning and Shenyang with the theme of China-Russia science and technology innovation.

Ix. Objectives of the school

The school will focus on the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing talent, implement the five major development strategies of "establishing the school with distinctive features, strengthening the school with talents, invigorating the school with openness, governing the school with culture, and consolidating the school with quality", practice the Ordnant spirit of "patriotism and dedication, self-improvement, truth-seeking and pragmatism, and pursuit of excellence", uphold the school motto of "promoting aspiration and learning, cultivating virtue and talent", continuously deepen educational and teaching reforms, strengthen internal development, and improve educational quality We will strive unremittingly to build the school into a distinctive high-level applied university.

(Data as of October 2025)