Someone even quipped that someday we will have to set up an alumni association branch there. The Pearl River Delta, where most Taiwanese businesses first settled, seems to have lost its luster in recent years. When many people think of Guangzhou, they recall that it was the starting point of the Nationalist revolution, avian flu, and SARS.
相形之下，台商在大陸最早、規模也最大的落腳處──珠三角，近年反倒顯得沈寂、黯淡許多，一般人除了記得廣州是當年國民革命發源地外，大概就是禽流感和 SARS 了。