Taiwanese businesspeople are one of the keys to Guangdong's affluence. Twenty years ago they began crossing the Taiwan Strait to set up factories in the Pearl River Delta. To this day, Guangdong remains the area in China most populated by Taiwanese businessmen, and by 2002 their cumulative investment there had reached US $ 8.4 billion. At least 400,000 Taiwanese are believed to reside permanently in Guangdong.
廣東的富裕，台商應為關鍵之一，從二十年前台商跨海西進，搶進珠三角設廠，直到現在，廣東依然是全中國台商最密集的地區，至二○○二年的投資金額累計已達八十四億美元，估計有至少四十萬名台商及眷屬長居當地。