The university is now implementing a strategy of strengthening itself with talents and attaching importance to teacher education, which has established a Provincial-level Academician and Expert Workstation. The university also pays attention to its connotative development, which has been equipped with 1 National-level Specialty of Characteristic Construction, 1 National-level Pilot Project of Comprehensive Specialty Reform, 6 Provincial-level Key Disciplines, 1 Provincial-level Key Laboratories and 4 Provincial-level Applied Disciplines. The Journal of Longyan University has been awarded as the National-level Excellent Periodical in Local Universities, whose column of “Hakka Research” has been awarded as the National-level Characteristic Column in Local University Journals. The College of Special Mechanical Equipment of the university has been awarded as the Provincial-level Exemplary Industrial College while the practice base of mechanical and electrical engineering has been awarded as the Provincial-level Exemplary Practice Base for Vocational Education Co-constructed by University and Enterprise. The university teachers have won 1 Second Prize and 3 Third Prizes of the Provincial-level Science and Technology Awards as well as 1 Second Prize, 4 Third Prizes of the Provincial-level Outstanding Achievements in Social Sciences  and  1 Youth Masterpiece Award in their research achievements.

Longyan University, sticking to the motto of being “Rooted in the Red Land, Devoted to Application, Manifesting through Characteristics and Serving Local Development”, with the goal of “Footholds in Longyan, Service on West Coast, Orientation at Basic Level and Connection with Industry”, is now working hard to reconstruct itself into an exemplary high-standard and application-oriented university.