Bundled with ambitions and dreams, 23-year-old Lee Hiu Feng, born and raised in Hong Kong, arrived in Dongguan, Guangdong Province on the Chinese mainland, in 2021. Home to over 190,000 industrial enterprises, Dongguan stands out as a major manufacturing hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), which consists of Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions (SARs) and nine cities in Guangdong. Lee’s destination was one of those companies.
His decision to live in Dongguan was not merely a whim. “My sister has been living and working on the mainland for over a decade since she graduated from Beijing Language and Culture University. She often shared what she saw and heard there with.
