一座江南小城与德国的“双向奔赴”
Taicang marks years of growth as "hometown of German enterprises" in China

2026年2月24日，在太仓罗腾堡风情街，顾客走进一家德国餐厅。江苏太仓，位于长江入海口南岸，是一座常住人口不到百万的小城。自1993年第一家德企克恩·里伯斯公司落户于此以来，太仓已集聚了超过560家德资企业，总投资超60亿美元，年工业产值超670亿元。这座江南小城也因此成为全国德资企业集聚度最高、发展质量最好的县域经济体之一，名副其实的“德企之乡”。[新华社记者 季春鹏 摄]

Customers walk into a German restaurant in Taicang, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 24, 2026. Taicang, with its permanent resident population of less than one million, is a small city on the south bank of Yangtze River estuary. Known as the "hometown of German enterprises" in China, Taicang has gathered over 560 German-funded enterprises so far since the first German company Kern-Liebers settled here in 1993, with the total investment exceeding six billion U.S. dollars and an annual industrial output value of over 67 billion yuan (about 9.76 billion U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)