Taiwan firms are now the most important source of foreign investment in Dongguan. Consider the booming electronics industry. Eighty percent of Dongguan's 1,800 computer-related companies are from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. In terms of production value, they account for at least half of this RMB 50 billion local industry.
如今台商已是東莞外資的主力部隊，以當紅的電子業來說，根據統計，東莞總共有一千八百家電腦資訊業，台港澳資佔八成；整體資訊產值佔五百億人民幣，台港澳資產值佔五成。