Dalian polytechnic university, located in Dalian, Liaoning Province, is an institution of higher learning that focuses on engineering, science, art, literature, management and economics, and is characterized by training professionals in food, light industry, textiles and art. It was selected as the first batch of "double-first-class" key construction universities in Liaoning Province, the second batch of pilot schools in the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, and Yuan Xiaojie, Party Secretary and President Li Changwu of the.
As of April 2022, the school has three first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, food science and engineering, light industry technology and engineering and textile science and engineering, two post-doctoral research stations, 14 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degrees and eight categories authorized by master's professional degrees. There are 15 colleges (departments), 54 general undergraduate majors, 3 Chinese-foreign cooperative undergraduate majors and 3 English-taught undergraduate majors (studying in China); There are 4 national professional construction points and 9 national first-class professional construction points; * * * 846 full-time teachers.
Dalian polytechnic university was founded in 1958, formerly known as Shenyang Institute of Light Industry. It is one of the earliest four light industry research institutes established in China, originally under the Ministry of Light Industry. 1970 moved to kuandian county, liaoning province, and moved to dalian city in the same year, renamed dalian institute of light industry. 1998 was transformed into a system jointly built by the central and local governments and managed by the Liaoning provincial government. In 2007, the school was renamed dalian polytechnic university.