2 1 1 Universities in Liaoning Province include Dalian University of Technology, Northeastern University, Dalian Maritime University and Liaoning University. Among them, Dalian University of Technology is a national key university established by the Ministry of Education and the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, a class A construction university that is a national double-class world-class university, and also a national key construction university for the 985 Project and the 21/project. Liaoning Province is a provincial administrative region in People's Republic of China (PRC) and the capital of Shenyang, so it is named for its implication of keeping the Liaohe River Basin safe forever. Liaoning Province is located in the south of northeast China, bordering the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea in the south, Hebei Province in the southwest, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the northwest, Jilin Province in the northeast and North Korea across the river in the southeast.