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Shantou University is a comprehensive university established with the approval of the State Council in 1981. The school has received great help from the famous patriot and internationally renowned entrepreneur Mr. Li Ka-shing. The Li Ka-shing Foundation's support for Shantou University exceeds 10 billion Hong Kong dollars. At present, Shantou University is an institution of higher learning jointly established by the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Province, and the Li Ka-shing Foundation. It is also the only public university in the world that is continuously funded by the Li Ka-shing Foundation, a private foundation. The school is the patriotism education base in Guangdong Province. The school covers an area of 1,888.70 acres and has a building area of 568,800 square meters (including gymnasiums, medical schools, residential colleges, etc.).
Shantou University has schools of liberal arts, sciences, engineering, medical schools, law schools, business schools, Changjiang School of Art and Design, Changjiang School of Journalism and Communication, and recruits doctoral, master and undergraduate students from all over the country (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). There are 1602 faculty members and 10,294 full-time students, and 100,000 talents of various kinds have been cultivated for the society.
Shantou University has 1 national key discipline, set up "Yangtze River Scholar" distinguished professor posts, 5 post-doctoral research stations, 3 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 14 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, including first-level disciplines The number of points covered, our school has 39 second-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points and 103 second-level discipline master degree authorization points. There are 11 master's degree authorization points. There are 8 key disciplines in Guangdong Province (including 1 peak-climbing key discipline: basic mathematics; 4 dominant key disciplines: chemistry, mechanical design and theory, clinical medicine, basic medicine; 3 characteristic key disciplines: marine biology, biochemistry and Molecular biology, pharmacology), 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 6 key laboratories of Guangdong Province, 3 international scientific and technological cooperation bases of Guangdong Province, 3 key laboratories of universities in Guangdong Province, 3 key laboratories of Guangdong Provincial Department of Health There are 1 technological innovation platform for key industries in Guangdong Province, 5 Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Centers, 4 Guangdong University Industry-University-Research Combination Demonstration Bases, 3 Guangdong University Engineering Technology Research Centers, Guangdong University International and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Cooperation Innovation 6 platforms, 2 key research bases of humanities and social sciences in universities in Guangdong Province, 1 experimental teaching demonstration center of the Ministry of Education (national), 15 experimental teaching demonstration centers of Guangdong Province, 2 innovative experimental areas for talent training model of the Ministry of Education 2007 , 10 provincial-level talent training model innovation experimental areas, 7 national-level specialty construction sites (business administration, art design, law, clinical medicine, mechanical design and manufacturing and its automation, civil engineering, radio and television journalism), provincial-level There are 11 characteristic professional construction points, 4 excellent courses of the Ministry of Education (national), 2 demonstration courses of bilingual teaching by the Ministry of Education (national), 1 teaching team of the Ministry of Education (national), 4 famous majors in Guangdong Province (electronics) Information engineering, computer science and technology, clinical medicine, business administration), 2 key majors in Guangdong Province (clinical medicine, civil engineering), offering a seven-year undergraduate, master, and combined clinical medicine major, forming a complete range from undergraduates to doctoral students Talent training system.
The school has established a number of scientific research institutions that can not only carry out basic scientific research but also directly serve the local economic construction, mainly including the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Technology of the Ministry of Education, the branch of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, and the Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology , Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing Technology, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Key Laboratory of Structure and Wind Tunnel, Local Government Development Research Institute, Guangdong-Taiwan Enterprise Cooperation Research Institute, etc. The library fully implements computerized management and is committed to building a modern digital library. There are 1,575,900 books and digital resources of 1,442,254 GB, including 46091 GB of e-books. The school campus network was established in 1990. After special investment in the 211 project, the current campus network has been extended to every building in the school, and students can directly access the Internet from the dormitory. The School of Medicine has five affiliated hospitals and 3 trustee hospitals, with 5523 beds. The first affiliated hospital was awarded the "National Top 100 Hospital" and the "Tier-A" hospital, providing medical students with good medical practice opportunities. The teaching and research experimental equipment of the whole school is at the advanced level of domestic universities.
With the support of the Li Ka-shing Foundation, the school actively expands academic exchanges and cooperation, and the level of international schooling has been rapidly improved. The school has established close academic exchange and cooperation relationships with 56 universities in 16 countries and regions including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Ireland, and has formulated and implemented undergraduate and graduate exchange programs. In December 2016, Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), co-founded by Shantou University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, was formally established with the approval of the Ministry of Education.
The school focuses on the education goal of "ambition, knowledge, perseverance, and promising", adheres to student-oriented, reforms the university management system and innovates talent training models, and plans to carry out the most forward-looking life in the newly established medical school Science teaching courses. Since 2001, with the support of the Li Ka-shing Foundation, the school has launched an internationalization-oriented reform project. It recruits foreigners to serve as executive principals, deans and other positions, and conducts courses, teaching, resource management, and personnel systems. Exemplary comprehensive exploration of educational reforms. Many reform experiences have been recognized, supported and promoted by the state, and are highly praised by Comrade Li Lanqing as the "test ground for reforms in Chinese universities." Since 2009, Shantou University has taken the construction of an advanced undergraduate education system as the core, actively explored innovative international and refined undergraduate talent training models, and promoted the pilot process of comprehensive reform of self-sponsored education.
In 2012, the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Province, and the Li Ka-shing Foundation decided to jointly build Shantou University and support Shantou University to continue to deepen reforms and build it into a domestically advanced and internationally renowned high-level university. In 2015, Shantou University carried out the reform of the “four academies and two departments” major department system, reorganized the functional departments of the party and government in the school, and actively explored the construction of a school management system and operation mechanism with service as the core concept, institutional function integration, and efficient mechanism operation.
Shantou University has lived up to the expectations of the leaders of the central, provincial and municipal levels and Mr. Li Ka-shing. After more than 30 years of hard work, they have created a good environment for cultivating high-quality innovative talents and laid a good foundation for sustainable development. Shantou University will strive to build It has the high-quality management system and excellent education of a modern university, and is a domestically advanced and internationally renowned high-level university.