150年前，恩格斯在论到中国清朝被迫对外开放口岸时，说“汕头是唯一有点商业意义的地方”。汕头在清朝开放之后，由此形成了粤东商贸集散中心和著名侨乡。抗战后被迫关闭口岸，到特区成立前，吴南生等老一代革命家去调查时，发现当时的汕头人民比当年他们在当地进行革命活动的 150 years ago, Engels, referring to the forced opening of ports to the outside world in China during the Qing Dynasty, said “Shantou is the only place of commercial interest.” After the opening up of the Qing Dynasty, Shantou formed the center of trade and distribution of eastern Guangdong and the famous hometown of overseas Chinese. Before the Anti-Japanese War, they were forced to close their ports. Before the establishment of the SAR, the older generation of revolutionaries such as Wu Nansheng went to investigate and found that Shantou people at that time were more revolutionary than their natives in that year