Founded in 1949, the University was identified as one of the 88 national key universities by the State Council in 1978. In 1981, it was approved as one of the first batch of master's degree awarding units, in 1993 it was approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit and a qualified unit for receiving international students. In 1996, it was renamed and upgraded from Fuxin Institute of Mining and technology to Liaoning Technical University. In 1999, it was approved to establish a post doctoral research mobile stations. In 2012, Liaoning Provincial People's government signed an agreement with the former State Administration of work safety to jointly build the school, In 2013, it was approved as the key construction University of the national "basic capacity construction project of colleges and universities in central and Western China", and was selected as one of the 10 domestic first-class universities in Liaoning Province in 2019.

The school now has Fuxin campus Zhonghua Road Campus, Yulong campus and Huludao campus Longwan campus, covering an area of 4240 mu. There are 39,000 registered students, including 28，000 full-time doctoral, master's, undergraduate and international students. The University focuses on strengthening the "double first-class" construction and has formed a discipline professional structure system focusing on engineering and coordinated development of engineering, management, science and other disciplines. At present, it has 4 post doctoral research mobile stations, 8 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization stations, 16 first-class discipline master's degree authorization stations, 5 second-class discipline master's degree authorization stations and 10 professional degree authorization stations; It has 1 national key cultivation discipline, 3 first-class disciplines in Liaoning Province and 7 provincial key disciplines; It has 11 national first-class majors, 8 national characteristic majors, 7 pilot majors of excellent engineer education and training plan of the Ministry of education, 10 first-class majors in Liaoning Province and 10 majors that have passed the international engineering education certification; It has 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 6 national engineering practice education centers and 15 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers; It has 1 Key Laboratory of the Ministry of education, 1 national local joint engineering research center, 1 national basic research center of work safety technology, 7 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation centers, and 1 science and technology R & D platform of the former State Administration of work safety; It has a National University Science Park, a national science and technology enterprise incubator, a national technology transfer demonstration institution, two major science and technology platforms of colleges and universities in Liaoning Province, It has 1 Key Laboratory of the Ministry of education, 1 national local joint engineering research center, 1 national basic research center of work safety technology, 7 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation centers, and 1 science and technology R & D platform of the former State Administration of work safety; It has a National University Science Park, a national science and technology enterprise incubator, a national technology transfer demonstration institution, two major science and technology platforms of colleges and universities in Liaoning Province, 17 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, five provincial professional technology innovation centers, three provincial engineering research centers and one provincial social science base. At present, there are more than 1500 full-time teachers, including more than 800 teachers with senior professional titles and more than 1300 teachers with master's degrees or above; It has 1 national teaching team, 11 Liaoning teaching teams, 2 huangdanian teaching teams, 2 high-level innovation and entrepreneurship teams of the rejuvenating Liaoning talent plan, 2 academicians of the Russian Academy of natural sciences, 7 academicians of the two academies (double employment), 1 Changjiang Scholar, 52 recipients of special government subsidies of the state Council, 9 climbing scholars of Liaoning Province, 19 distinguished professors of Liaoning 17 secondary professors; Three teachers were identified as national candidates for the new century million talent project, one teacher was rated as a national excellent teacher, one teacher was selected into the first batch of academic leaders in Liaoning Province, 21 teachers were rated as provincial famous teachers, 30 teachers were selected into the "rejuvenating Liaoning talents" plan, and 112 teachers were selected into the Liaoning million talent project. The school has formed a characteristic culture with socialist core values as the guide, the "Sun Stone spirit" as the core and "family culture, harmony culture, low-cost culture and creative culture" as the main content.

The university always adheres to undergraduate education as the foundation of the University, builds first-class undergraduate and first-class majors, and focuses on cultivating first-class applied and innovative talents with firm ideals and beliefs, international vision and "Sun Stone spirit". In 2016, it was rated by the Ministry of education as the first batch of 99 demonstration universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, in 2017, it was rated as the top 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship by the Ministry of education, twice as the national advanced collective in graduate employment by the Ministry of education, and in 2010, it was rated as the top 50 universities with typical experience in graduate employment by the Ministry of education. Since its establishment, the university has trained more than 140000 outstanding graduates for the country, of which more than 10 alumni have been successively elected as members of the Central Committee, alternate members and members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection; There are the Deputy Secretary General of the State Council, dozens of leaders of national ministries and commissions, secretaries of provincial Party committees, governors, municipal Party committees and mayors, four alumni have been elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and more than 30 alumni have served as party secretaries and presidents of well-known universities in China; A large number of alumni have served as heads of large and medium-sized state-owned or private enterprises.

People of Liaoning Technical University hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and guided by Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with China's characteristics in China's new era, with more full of passion, more acute thinking, more broad-minded, more pragmatic measures and more perfect style, do not forget the original mind and bear in mind the fate,keep developing the school with the strategy of strengthening the university with talents and the strategy of cultural guidance strive to build a first-class domestic research and application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics in an all-round way.