The experience and support of Taiwanese businesspeople has turned what was a small town into an export center of strategic importance. Dongguan is also the most prominent new home for Taiwanese immigrants in mainland China. Taiwanese businesspeople have brought over friends and family in large numbers: there are currently 100,000 Taiwanese entrepreneurs in Dongguan, one in four of the 400,000 Taiwanese businesspeople, employees, and family dependents in Guangdong Province as a whole.
有了台灣經驗加持，小小的東莞成為出口重鎮，東莞，也因之成為台灣血統最明顯的大陸都市，朋友帶著朋友，親人引著親人，今日，東莞台商的數目已上漲到十萬人，達到廣東全部台商、台幹和眷屬總數四十萬的四分之一。