福建有个陈嘉庚,广东有个李嘉诚,他们爱国兴学育才的壮举,已先后载入史册,名扬海内外。但李嘉诚先生关怀汕大图书馆建设的业绩却鲜为人知,本文为弘扬李先生的爱国爱乡无私奉献精神,试做如下简要的论述。一、汕大的兴建及其图书馆的历史回顾潮汕地区自宋以来即有“海滨邹鲁”之称。然历经千年沦桑仍空无一所大学。近百年来,海内外潮籍有识之士,为之奔走呼吁也终未果。直至1979年初,兴建汕头经济特区,亟需大量专业人才之时,创办大学乃成为当务之急。在省市党政领导的关怀下,遂于1980年5月组成以吴南生为主任的汕头大学筹委会,次年8月国务院批准成立汕头大学,并 There is a Tan Kah Kee in Fujian, a Li Ka-shing in Guangdong, and their feats of patriotism, development and education have been recorded in the annals of history and famous at home and abroad. However, Mr. Li Ka-shing care about the construction of the Shantou University Library performance is little-known, this paper to carry forward Lee’s patriotic love of selfless dedication, try to do the following brief discussion. First, the construction of Shantou University and the history of the library review Chaoshan area since the Song Dynasty that is “seaside Zou Lu,” said. However, after a thousand years is still empty without a university. Over the past century, the tide of people of insight at home and abroad, for whom the appeals are ultimately unsuccessful. Until the early 1979, the construction of Shantou Special Economic Zone, the urgent need of a large number of professionals, the founding of the university has become a top priority. Under the care of provincial and municipal leaders, Shantou University Preparatory Committee headed by Wu Nansheng was formed in May 1980, and the State Council approved the establishment of Shantou University in August of the following year.