Shantou University is a comprehensive university approved by 198 1 the State Council, and it is a key construction project in Guangdong Province. It is also a university supported by the Li Ka-shing Foundation for a long time. Shantou University is located in Shantou, a coastal city in the southeast of China. Its campus is surrounded by mountains and waters with elegant architectural style. Shantou University is committed to building itself into a modern institution of higher learning with its own characteristics, internationalization and concern around the educational goal of "being ambitious, knowledgeable, persistent and promising".

Shantou University is 198 1 a comprehensive university approved by the State Council. The school is located in the northwest of Shantou, a coastal city in the national special economic zone, with an area of 2,038.85 mu and a building area of 448,400 square meters.

Shantou University, the school gate of Shantou University, has received great assistance from Mr. Li Ka-shing, a famous patriot and international entrepreneur. Mr. Li has donated over HK$ 3.3 billion to the school (including direct donation to cheung kong graduate school of business), and plans to donate another HK$ 2 billion in the next eight years. Moreover, Mr. Li Ka-shing devoted a lot of efforts to the construction and development of Shantou University, which fully demonstrated Li Ka-shing's noble feelings of Lisan and his deep-rooted firm belief in the importance of national education.

Focusing on the educational goal of "being ambitious, knowledgeable, persistent and promising", the school adheres to the student-oriented principle and carries out the reform of university management system and the innovation of talent training mode. Since 2002, the school has started the internationalization-oriented reform project in an all-round way, hired foreign talents as executive principals, vice-principals and deans, and promoted a series of reform projects, which was praised by Comrade Li Lanqing as "the experimental field of university reform in China".