《汕头经济特区志》(简称《汕特志》)于1989年11月出版发行。该志上限从特区创建的1981年起,下限至1987年,前后共7年时间,正好是汕头特区创建至今15周年的前半段。其内容写得很有特色,把汕头特区那种“看似寻常景奇崛,成如容易却艰辛”(原国务院副总理谷牧题词)的 “Shantou Special Economic Zone” (referred to as “Shantuan Zhi”) was published in November 1989. Since 1981, the minimum limit for the establishment of the SAR has reached seven years since 1987, exactly the first half of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Shantou Special Administrative Region. Its content is very distinctive in writing that the “seemingly extraordinary rise of the Shantou SAR” became as easy and arduous as the former Vice Premier Gu Mu made the inscription