Donghai University 1942 was established as a national defense engineering school. The following year, 1943, the aviation science vocational school, the predecessor of Donghai University, was established, which was part of the idea of establishing the National University of Defense Technology.
Donghai University aims to cultivate human resources with broad vision and flexible imagination under the knowledge-based basic education, grasp a firm view of history, nationality and world through the integration of humanities and natural sciences, and devote itself to the integration of humanities.