Self-renewal of thinking outside of experience

If we say that the breakthrough of “from 0 to 1” is that Taicang has taken advantage of the general trend of China-Germany cooperation and made efforts to realize its own development. Then, from 1 to 100 and then to 487, Taicang explored a unique “Taicang mode” of cooperation with Germany with profound “internal merits”, and “explored the road” for the specific practice of Sino-German cooperation with the attitude of “leader”.

How to maintain the “leading edge”? Will 30 years of successful experience create path dependence, resulting in inertia that is difficult to escape?

In the face of this new proposition that must be answered, Taicang’s thinking is changing.

In the process of transformation of development momentum and industrial upgrading, Taicang has vigorously cultivated innovation clusters in aerospace, biomedicine and other industries, and the manufacturing industry foundation formed in 30 years of cooperation with Germany has become a “treasure house of resources”.

Every leading German enterprise in Taicang’s active guidance and the tuyere of the market environment, consciously “follow the trend”, into the Taicang local innovation chain, industrial chain.

Trumpf Group, a member of the German Industry 4.0 alliance, lays out high-end technology core components representing the company’s scientific research frontier in Taicang; Otokab, which focuses on automotive wiring harness, takes Taicang Company as the focus to develop the new energy vehicle market; Schaeffler, the largest German company in Jiangsu, has entered the “blue Ocean” of the aerospace industry…

From the initial attraction, to the promotion of development, to the guidance of planning, Taicang’s global thinking and systematic planning not only allow German enterprises to achieve their own development, but also upgrade the cooperation with Germany from enterprise cooperation to industrial cooperation, and achieve the same direction and frequency resonance of urban industrial development and enterprise’s own development.

The model of cooperation is evolving.

From enterprise cooperation to expansion, Taicang has extended its cooperation with Germany from a single economic field to many aspects such as education, culture, science and technology, environmental protection, urban construction and social management, building an unrepeatable competitive advantage, and creating a comprehensive, multi-field and deep-level two-way cooperation and integrated development pattern with Germany.

Brand activities such as “Taicang Day” and Taicang Beer Festival in Germany are becoming more and more influential, and life service scenes such as German style street, Sino-German friendship kindergarten and German hotel are becoming more and more abundant. More and more Germans are living and working in Taicang. The golden sign of “the happiest city” has become a unique comparative advantage for Taicang to deepen cooperation with Germany.