Liaoning University (Chinese: 辽宁大学) is one of the leading universities listed in the nation's "Project 211" and affirmed by the Ministry of Education. It is a university in Liaoning, People's Republic of China. It is located in the northern part of Shenyang. The September 1958 saw the amalgamation of the Northeast Institute of Finance and Economics, Shenyang Normal College and Shenyang Institute of Russian, which led to the birth of Liaoning University. Marshal Zhu De, one of the founders of the People's Republic of China, wrote the inscription of the school name for the University. At present, the University has an area of 2,138 mu, i.e. 1,420,000 square meters (including the University proper, Liaoyang Foreign Languages College and the Puhe Campus), with a building area totaling 600, 000 square meters.