ABSTRACT
Often considered to be the premier example of an industrial cluster built by attracting foreign and nearby Hong Kong business investment to China based primarily on a large pool of hard-working, low cost labor (Tong, 2000), Dongguan provides a picture of the lower end of technology-related clustered activity. Starting with Hong Kong on the eastern shore representing the relatively highest level of innovativeness and pay scale, the Pearl River Delta's string of manufacturing towns next moves west to Shenzhen with its combination of industrial and High Tech parks, the provincial city of Guangzhou with its universities and institutes, and finally Dongguan (Figure 5.1).
