Participants of "Taicang Day" call for more Sino-German innovative cooperation

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2026-04-19 05:31:15

People cheers at a beer carnival in Taicang, east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 26, 2025. Taicang, with its permanent resident population of less than one million, is a small city on the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary. (Photo by Wang Xuzhong/Xinhua)

Taicang has become an important hub for German enterprises developing in China, said Gudrun Weidmann, senior official of the Bavarian economic ministry. He spoke highly of Taicang's achievements in smart manufacturing, industrial innovation, talent cultivation and green transition.

BERLIN, April 18 (Xinhua) -- China and Germany could step up communication and promote each other's investment and innovative cooperation against the backdrop of increasing international uncertainty, said participants of the 18th German "Taicang Day" event recently.

Taicang is a city in the Jiangsu province, eastern China. "Taicang Day" has become an important platform for China and Germany to promote economic and cultural exchanges since 2008. This year's event, which was held in Munich on Thursday, has attracted about 300 entrepreneurs, experts and business leaders.

Taicang has become an important hub for German enterprises developing in China, said Gudrun Weidmann, senior official of the Bavarian economic ministry.

Weidmann spoke highly of Taicang's achievements in smart manufacturing, industrial innovation, talent cultivation and green transition, noting that a stable, reliable and fair cooperation environment will help boost the confidence of enterprises under current international scenario.

An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 25, 2026 shows a view of the German enterprise cluster area in Taicang, east China's Jiangsu Province. 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)

Zhai Qian, minister of economic and commercial affairs at the Chinese Embassy in Germany, said that the healthy and stable development of Sino-German relations and the continuous deepening of pragmatic economic and trade cooperation will inject momentum into global economic development.

Chen Xiaodong, deputy head of Jiangsu's provincial department of commerce, stated that platforms such as the Sino-German (Taicang) industrial cooperation demonstration zone have provided efficient channels for enterprises to promote mutual cooperation.

He added that Jiangsu has great potential in stepping up the Sino-German cooperation.

German enterprises have not only set up production bases in Taicang but also carried out cooperation with the Chinese side in various fields such as local supply chains, joint research and development, and vocational education, said Michaela Schenk, head of the foreign trade committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria. ■