entity Updated 2026-08-10 Tags: City, China, Manufacturing, Pearl-River-Delta

Dongguan / 东莞

Dongguan / 东莞 appears in 如此打工 30 年:流水线上的面孔与时间 as the city setting for [[ZhanTeacher|占老师]]’s long worker-photography practice and for the episode’s account of [[PearlRiverDeltaManufacturingTransformation|珠三角制造业变迁]]. The source treats Dongguan less as a generic city and more as an industrial landscape where factories, dormitories, canteens, roads, suppliers, and migrant-worker services organize daily life.

The episode’s Dongguan branch connects early reform-era capital, export orders, global demand shocks, [[FlexibleManufacturing|flexible manufacturing]], automation, and small-factory specialization to the lived time of workers. It also gives the wiki a labor-side complement to other Dongguan references such as 中国散裂中子源 / China Spallation Neutron Source, where the city appears through large-science infrastructure.

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