Abstract：Dongguan, once an agricultural county in Southeast Guangdong Province, has now become a modern industrial city and one of processing bases of the world, owing to have attracted a great deal of foreign investment(FI) since reforming and opening to the outside world in China. This paper firstly introduces the main characters and economic efficiency of FI in Dongguan, and then evaluates its effects on the economy, including the increase of urban economic strength, the development of local production network and labor market, and participant in the international labor division of territory. Thirdly, it points out such serious problems of FI as follows, the poor efficiency of technology diffusion from FI firms, the low level rate of materials' purchase in China, and other two facts. In conclusion, it puts forwards some countermeasures.
朱华晟, 王缉慈. 外商投资对东莞经济发展的影响及其战略思考[J]. 人文地理, 2001, 16(4): 49-52.
ZHU Hua-sheng, WANG Ji-ci. EFFECTS AND COUNTERMEASURES OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN DONGGUAN, GUANGDONG. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2001, 16(4): 49-52.
