The university was founded in 1949 and was designated by the State Council as one of the 88 national key universities in 1978. In 1981, it was approved as the first batch of master's degree-awarding units. In 1993, it was approved as a doctorate-awarding unit and a conditional acceptance of international students. In 1996, it was renamed and upgraded to Liaoning Technical University from Fuxin Institute of Mining Technology. In 1999, it was approved to set up a postdoctoral research station. In 2012, the Liaoning Provincial People's Government signed an agreement with the former State Administration of Work Safety to jointly build the university. In 2013, it was approved as a key construction university of the national "Central and Western University Basic Capacity Building Project". In 2019, it was selected as a first-class university in China.

In order to restore production, develop economy, support and liberate the whole China on the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liaoning Technical University was born in the rumbling sound of the People's Liberation War. In 1947, Comrade Chen Yu, deputy director of the Production Committee of the Northeast Bureau of the Communist Party of China (the first Minister of Fuel Industry after the founding of the People's Republic of China), founded the "Northeast Mining Area Worker Cadre School" in the Hengshan Mining Area of Jixi City, and served as the honorary principal, with Yuan Puzhi as the principal, which was the first school founded by the Communist Party of China to train coal miner cadres in the country. In the autumn of 1948, the whole territory of Northeast China was liberated. In order to support the liberation of the whole China and the needs of economic and cultural construction after the founding of New China, the Northeast Administrative Committee made instructions on education work on October 10, 1948. Among them, Fuxin Mining Secondary Technical School was established in January, 1949; Fushun Mining Industry School was established in March, 1949; China Coal Miners Northeast Accelerated Middle School was established in May, 1953. After ten years of hard work, adjustment and transformation, relocation and construction, these four schools have been transformed into Jixi Coal Mine School, Fuxin Coal Mine School, Fushun Coal Mine School, and Shenyang Coal Mine Industrial School. At the end of the 1950s, the four schools successively opened a precedent for undergraduate education. In the early 1960s, the four schools merged to become the only mining college in Northeast China. After the merger of the college, it was located in Fuxin and named Fuxin Coal Mining College, and Guo Moruo inscribed the name of the school. In 1978, the college was renamed Fuxin Institute of Mining Technology, and Marshal Ye Jianying personally inscribed the name of the college. In 1996, Fuxin Institute of Mining Technology was renamed Liaoning Technical University (LNTU). Over the past 70 years, generations of LNTU engineers have created the spirit of "unpretentious, tenacious and tenacious, selfless dedication", formed the university motto of "honesty, simplicity, truth-seeking, erudition and dedication", and the university spirit of "unity, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation", and cultivated more than 300,000 outstanding graduates for the country, known as the "Huangpu Military Academy" in the coal industry.

The university has distinctive characteristics with one university, two places (Fuxin City, Huludao City) and three campuses (Zhonghua Road Campus, Yulong Campus and Longwan Campus), owning a total area of 2,830 acres. The Advanced Research Institute of Liaoning Technical University was established in Shenyang, and the Ordos Research Institute and Xinjiang Research Institute were established in Ordos and Urumqi respectively. As a local high-level university in Liaoning Province, the university was selected by the Ministry of Education as a cooperative unit to support new universities in Xinjiang, and to build a cooperative unit of "Ningxia Advanced Research Institute" and "Inner Mongolia Advanced Research Institute". At present, there are more than 40,000 registered students, including more than 31,000 full-time doctoral students, master's students, undergraduate students and international students. There are 2,098 teaching staff, including 1,704 full-time teachers and 868 teachers with senior professional titles. The university has 1 chair scholar and 1 young scholar of "Changjiang Scholars Award Program", 3 people of the National New Century Millions of Talents Project, 1 entrepreneurial leading talent of the "National Special Support Program", 58 winners of special government allowances of the State Council, and 1 new century outstanding talent of the Ministry of Education. 5 teachers were selected into the "Young Talent Lifting Project" of China Association for Science and Technology, 4 teachers as the academic head-leading of Liaoning Province, 2 high-level innovation and entrepreneurship teams of "Xingliao Talents", 47 teachers into the "Xingliao Talents" program, 14 teachers into the "Grassland Talents" project (formerly the "Talents Xingmeng" project), 4 teachers into the high-level scientific and technological innovation talent project of the Ministry of Natural Resources, 3 teachers as national outstanding teachers, and 132 teachers as Liaoning Provincial Millions of Talents Project. There are 1 national famous teacher, 41 provincial and ministerial famous teachers, 8 climbing scholars in Liaoning Province and 18 Liaoning distinguished professors. It has 1 national-level teaching team, 11 Liaoning Provincial teaching teams, and 2 provincial-level Huang Danian-style teaching teams.

The university focuses on strengthening the construction of "double first-class", and has formed a discipline and professional structure system with engineering as the mainstay and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as engineering, management, science, economics and agriculture. Now it has 5 post-doctoral research stations, 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 1 doctoral professional degree authorization point, 21 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 10 master's professional degree authorization points. It has 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 4 "double first-class" construction disciplines in Liaoning Province, 7 key disciplines in Liaoning Province; and 6 provincial-level modern industry colleges. 12 majors have been approved as first-class undergraduate major construction sites of the national "Double Ten Thousand Plan", and 14 majors have passed the engineering education certification (evaluation). 9 national first-class undergraduate courses and 179 provincial first-class undergraduate courses have been approved. It has 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 6 national engineering practice education centers, and 10 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers. There are 6 national-level college student practice bases and 8 provincial-level college student practice bases. It has established 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 1 national and local joint engineering research center, 1 national basic research center for safety production technology, 1 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation center, and 6 provincial collaborative innovation centers. It has established a national university science and technology park, a national science and technology business incubator, a national technology transfer demonstration institution, 20 provincial key laboratories, 5 provincial professional technology innovation centers, 4 provincial engineering research centers, 2 industry association engineering research centers, 1 provincial social science base, and 2 provincial think tank platforms.

The university has always regarded scientific and technological innovation as the core driving force of development, and has obvious advantages and distinctive characteristics in the fields of open-pit mining, mine disaster prevention, Beidou navigation, intelligent mining equipment, etc. It has won 6 national science and technology progress awards, a total of 115 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and 617 social force awards, and the relevant achievements are widely used in nearly 300 large enterprises, such as National Energy Group, China Coal Group, Huaneng Group, and Anben Group. It provides a solid theoretical support and technical guarantee for the safe production and sustainable development of the mining industry, injects a strong impetus into local economic construction and social development, and demonstrates the profound accumulation and outstanding strength of the university in scientific research and innovation.

The university adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating people with virtue, promotes the transformation of "moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor" five educations to "integration of five educations", takes first-class professional construction as the guide, takes professional certification as the starting point, and takes the integration of industry and education and university-enterprise cooperation as the path, actively promotes the reform of education and teaching, and cultivates applied innovative talents with firm ideals and beliefs, "Sunstone Spirit", family and country feelings and international vision. In 2000 and 2009, it was rated as the national advanced collective for graduate employment by the Ministry of Education. In 2010, it was rated as one of the top 50 universities with typical experience in the first batch of graduate employment by the Ministry of Education. In 2016, it was rated as the first batch of 99 demonstration universities for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education by the Ministry of Education. In 2017, it was rated as one of the top 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship by the Ministry of Education. In 2023, it was rated in the "2023 Annual Report of the China Graduate Innovation Practice Series Competition". The university won the top 100 annual contribution units of graduate training units and the top 100 quality contribution units of graduate training units.

Facing the future, the university adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Chinese Socialism for the New Era, fully implements the Party's education policy, adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality, takes the promotion of "double first-class" construction as the traction, takes the promotion of high-quality development as the primary task, serves the strategic needs of the national energy industry and the comprehensive revitalization of Liaoning as the value mission, continues to promote the "five development strategies", and strives to implement the new development layout of "based on Fuxin and Huludao, Shenyang in the east, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang in the west, and through the Silk Road". In the new journey of building a first-class research and application university in China in an all-round way, LNTU will make great contribution to the new era of "six places" and the new chapter of comprehensive revitalization in Liaoning Province, and to the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation!