Ludong University

Ludong University is located in Yantai, named “China’s Best Charming City.” It is a provincially administered university centered on humanities, science and engineering, with coordinated multidisciplinary development. Founded in Laiyang in 1930, it was renamed Ludong University in 2006. Over more than eighty years, it has upheld the motto “Virtue, Erudition, Daily Renewal and Diligent Action.” Through diligent work and pioneering effort, it has developed an ethos of “seeking truth and the highest good, valuing practicality and application.”

The campus covers 3225 mu, with 1.03 million square meters of buildings. It has 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center in digital language and literature and 3 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers in basic computing, digital language and literature, and biology. It has 1488 full-time teachers and over 30000 students, including over 1700 doctoral and master’s students of various kinds and over 1200 international students.

The university emphasizes discipline-led development and continually strengthens its disciplines. It has 22 schools, 5 research institutes and 84 undergraduate programs; 1 postdoctoral research station; 1 doctoral authorization; 17 first-level master’s authorizations and 5 independent second-level master’s authorizations, covering 93 second-level master’s disciplines in total; and 11 professional master’s authorizations covering 28 admitting programs or fields. It has 9 Shandong key disciplines under the 12th Five-Year Plan, 2 Shandong key laboratories and 6 university key laboratories under the 13th Five-Year Plan.

It centers on talent cultivation and steadily improves teaching quality. It places great importance on research and gradually raises its research standards. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, it has led 177 national and 516 provincial or ministerial projects and received 90 research awards at provincial or ministerial level and above.

The university pursues open education, with increasingly frequent international exchanges. It was among the first 200 universities announced by the former State Education Commission as qualified to admit international students. It has friendly exchange and cooperation relationships with over 90 universities and institutions, with broad and in-depth collaboration in joint education, reciprocal faculty and student exchanges, and academic exchanges. It has 1 Sino-foreign cooperative institution, Ulsan Ship and Ocean College; jointly operates the Loire Confucius Institute with the University of Angers and the Catholic University of the West in France; and jointly operates the Yantai King Sejong Institute with Nambu University in South Korea. It has 4 cooperative education programs with overseas universities and joint student training programs using “2+2,” “3+1” and “3+2” models with several foreign universities.

Under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, teachers and students at Ludong University are pursuing the fundamental task of fostering virtue and educating people. They place talent cultivation at the center, substantive development as the theme, discipline and program development as the foundation, faculty development as the key, economic and social service as the orientation, reform and innovation as the driver, and comprehensive strict Party governance as the fundamental assurance. They are advancing digitalization, modernization and internationalization, striving to build a high-level comprehensive university with distinctive education and teaching, high-quality talent cultivation, outstanding research strengths and strong social service capabilities—a first-class university in Shandong with substantial influence in China and abroad.