Although home furnishings only account for 4 % of the Taiwanese investment volume in Dongguan, the city has become the largest furniture manufacturing center in the world. This prompted the Dutch furniture paint manufacturer Akzo Nobel to set up a factory there.
而兼任東莞台商協會會長的台昇家具董事長郭山輝，引進台灣相關中下游廠商進駐東莞，雖然家具配件僅佔台商投資額的 4 %，卻成功推動東莞成為世界最大的家具生產中心，影響所及，也吸引了製造家具油漆的荷蘭籍大廠阿克佐諾貝爾進駐。