Datong Foreign Language School is a complete secondary school directly under the city education bureau.

Datong Foreign Language School (formerly Shanxi Diesel Engine Factory Children's Middle School), located in Yungang District, Datong City, Shanxi Province, is a complete middle school directly under the Municipal Bureau of Education, with 49 years of school history as of 2017.

It has been awarded the title of key middle school in Shanxi Province, traditional school of sports in Shanxi Province, the first batch of spiritual civilization schools in Shanxi Province, model school of moral education in Shanxi Province, advanced school of school-based teaching research and training in Shanxi Province, experimental school of the Research Society of Psychology and Education of the Youth in Shanxi Province, advanced school of basic education curriculum reform in Shanxi Province, key middle school in Datong City, model school of modernization of educational technology and equipment in Datong City, advanced school of basic education curriculum reform in Datong City. Advanced School and other titles, and for many years in a row won the city college entrance examination and secondary school examination excellence award.

Since the establishment of Datong Foreign Language School, through the careful cultivation of all the teachers and staff, we have trained nearly 30,000 graduates from junior high and senior high schools, of which more than 1,500 students have been sent to provincial key high schools and secondary specialized schools, and more than 2,000 students have been admitted to higher education institutions. Among them, Zhao Jia was awarded the first place in arts in Datong City in the college entrance examination and was admitted to Beijing University of Political Science and Law, and Hu Zhongxiang was awarded the second place in science in Datong City in the college entrance examination and was admitted to Peking University.

The way to strengthen Datong Foreign Language School is "specialization and small class size", and the school will gradually develop into a foreign language school with English as the main language, supplemented by French, Japanese, Russian and German.