Basketball helps city rocked by controversy to clean up its image

Randy Chang is not only a company manager in Dongguan, a manufacturing and trade hub in Guangdong province, but also an enthusiastic basketball fan, who organized a team that won a number of trophies in recent years.

"Participating in basketball has nothing to do with my business. I like living in Dongguan, where the sport has already won the hearts of residents," Chang said.

Like Chang, a businessman from Taiwan who invested in a furniture company in Chashan in 2001, a growing number of investors in Dongguan have organized company teams to participate in various amateur basketball games.