Shantou is an important port city on the southeast coast of China, an important gateway on the Maritime Silk Road, a deputy central city of Guangdong Province, an open port city on the coast of China, and a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. China Excellent Tourism City, China Top 100 Investment Environment City, China Brand Economy City, National Intellectual property Rights work demonstration city, national e-commerce demonstration city, national information consumption pilot city, national double-owned model city, China stationery production base, national transportation hub city. It is known as the \"South China key, coastal Zulu, the hometown of food\".
Shantou is one of the important ancestral and settlement places of Chaoshan people, and one of the important birthplace and flourishing places of Chaoshan culture. Where there is \"sea water where there are hipsters\
In March 2019, Shantou won the right to host the Third Asian Youth Games in 2021, becoming the fifth Chinese city to win the right to host the intercontinental multi-sport Games after Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou.
Shantou city belongs to Guangdong Province under the jurisdiction of the city, is also one of the four special zone cities, also belongs to China's unique Chaoshan area, is located in Guangdong Province, east of the border with Fujian Province!
Shantou city belongs to Guangdong Province.
Shantou is the earliest special economic zone opened in China, one of the five special economic zones in China; It is the provincial sub-central city, the regional central city of East Guangdong, and the political, economic and cultural central city of East Guangdong.