Recently, Shantou University Southeast Asia Research Center and Digital Humanities and new liberal arts construction research base have been approved as the key research base of Shantou humanities and social sciences. On May 21st, in the theme day of 2021 Shantou social science popularization week, sponsored by Shantou Federation of Social Sciences, two new municipal key research bases of Humanities and social sciences were awarded by Shantou Federation of social sciences.