Taicang marks years of growth as 'hometown of German enterprises' in China

A waitress demonstrates German-style buns at a German bakery 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)