Dongguan is situated in the middle south of Guangdong province, on the east bank of Pearl River, bordering Guangzhou in the north and Shenzhen in the south. It is an unavoidable place for the waterway and highway transportation from Guangzhou to Hong Kong. In 1985, it was established as a city to replace the county and, in January 1988, promoted to be a prefecture-level city. Dongguan’s economy is outbound on the whole, especially its industry which cannot do without the international market in respect of funding, raw materials and product sales. In 2008, Dongguan’s GDP totaled RMB 370.253 billion, with a per capita disposable income of RMB 30,275. By the end of 2007, the permanent-resident population of the city amounted to 6.9472 million.

东莞市位于广东省中南部，珠江口东岸，北接广州，南连深圳,也是广州与香港之间水陆交通的必经之地。1985年9月撤县设市，1988年1月升格为地级市。东莞经济以外向型为主，特别是工业，大部分的资金、原材料和产品销售都离不开国际市场。2008年东莞生产总值3702.53亿元，人均可支配收入30275元，2007年末全市常住人口694.72万人。

Dongguan has formed an industrial system of fairly complete industrial categories with electronic information and manufacturing industries as the leaders. A batch of technology-intensified, and high value-added sectors represented by communication equipment, computer and other electronic equipment manufacturing have become Dongguan’s leading industries. Its manufacturing industry has solid foundations and complete industrial system. Dongguan is one of the largest manufacturing bases in the world, with the total manufacturing production value accounting for 90% of the gross industrial output value of enterprises above designated size, thus forming the modern industrial system which bases on the eight pillar industries of electronic information, electric machinery, textiles and garment, furniture, toys, paper making and paper ware, food and beverage, and chemical making.

东莞工业形成了以电子信息制造业为龙头的比较完整、门类齐全的工业体系。以通信设备、计算机及其他电子设备制造业为代表的一批技术密集型的高附加值的行业已成为龙头产业。 制造业实力雄厚，产业体系齐全。东莞是全球最大的制造业基地之一，制造业总产值占规模以上工业总产值的90%以上，形成以电子信息、电气机械、纺织服装、家具、玩具、造纸及纸制品业、食品饮料、化工等八大产业为支柱的现代化工业体系。