We spent a couple of days at Li-supported Shantou University to appreciate a part of that.

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We are happy, for example, to have Hello Kitty embroidery lines done in Shantou in China.

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Yet the younger people of Shantou, used only to galloping growth and reform, are worried, and with reason.

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Yet keenly as Shantou is feeling the region's pain, it is still China.

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The nearby port town of Shantou was one of the mainland's early Special Economic Zones but has lagged other booming coastal areas.

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Shantou may be feeling Asia's crisis more than other Chinese cities, but the rest of the region would be happy for such modest problems.

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Shantou University, a state school he has generously funded, is running five affiliated hospitals and an influenza research center and received grants for 196 medical research projects last year.

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And the financial woes of Chinese businessmen abroad mean they are investing less in their home town, and even withdrawing much of the money they had sent back to Shantou.

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Shantou University is Li Ka-shing's labor of love.

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In the first half of this year, Shantou's economic growth has been 2%, compared with more than 20% over the same period last year (and a target of 8% for China as a whole this year).

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