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Comparing Strikes in China's Pearl River Delta and Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City 1 In China, the cities of Dongguan and Shenzhen in the delta region of southern Guangdong Province are crowded with large numbers of Taiwanese factories.Starting in the late 1980s, labor-intensive industries relocated from Taiwan to Dongguan in abundance, and as of 2008-09 Dongguan contained some 6,000 Taiwanese factories.The number of strikes there has been increasing and, according to a 2008 report, sometimes reaches three or four in the same weeks, but this figure includes factories owned by other nationals, not just Taiwanese.2 Despite this rise in strikes, Taiwanese investors who were interviewed who own factories in both Vietnam and China do not see strikes in China as a problem.In contrast, these same Taiwanese businesspeople are concerned about strikes in Vietnam.Strike waves began to erupt in Vietnam in 2006 (350 officially recorded strikes) and reached a peak in 2008 (762 strikes).3 There was a drop to 215 in 2009, the year of global economic recession, 4 but once the economy picked up in 2010 1 For further reasons that these two regions and Vietnam and China as a whole are worth comparing, see William S.
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