Invoking the Taiwanese business battle cry of "victory to those who strive the hardest," 20,000-30,000 Taiwan expats in Dongguan have in little more than a decade turned a county of banana and lichee plantations into a big city with exports behind only Shenzhen's and Shanghai's.
十數年來，東莞兩、三萬名台商以台灣人「愛拚才會贏」的精神，將一個原產荔枝、香蕉的農業縣，營造成一個出口創匯僅次於深圳、上海的大城。