Enhancing the development of a top-tier faculty serves as a crucial safeguard for China’s endeavor to construct a powerful educational nation. Under the background of new liberal arts, the digital literacy of university English teachers is essential for improving teaching effectiveness and cultivating interdisciplinary talents. Founded on the education industry standard of Digital Literacy of Teachers, this paper adopts methods of questionnaire survey and semi-interview, and uses online SPSS software to statistically analyze the questionnaire data, to conduct an in-depth investigation into the current situation and influencing factors of digital literacy of English teachers in local universities of China. Furthermore, this paper puts forward specific strategies to improve the digital literacy of English teachers, with the objective of furnishing a theoretical foundation and empirical guidance for enhancing digital literacy of English teachers in local universities, in order to drive the reformative evolution of English teaching and the strategic advancement of digital education in local universities.