The surprising strength of the German economy, with more vigorous growth than at any time in the past 15 years, is due to the dynamism of emerging-market – particularly Chinese – demand, not only for investment goods, engineering products, and machine tools, but also for luxury consumer products. Germany’s high-end automobile producers are now operating at full capacity.
在雷曼公司于2008年9月年破产后的那六个月间，全球经济贸易近乎停滞，似乎又回到了大萧条的时代，但中国以及其他新兴经济体却一手推动了那些以出口为导向的工业经济体的复苏。德国经济取得了15年来最高的增长，而其强大动力则是拜新兴经济体（尤其是中国）的需求所赐——其中不但包括投资产品和工程机械，还有奢侈品贸易。德国的高端汽车工业正开足马力生产以满足这些需求。