2010年和2011年，由于中国经济的蓬勃发展仍然对德国机械和汽车保持着高需求，德国年均GDP增长超过3 % ； 但当中国GDP增长放缓，德国年增长率也随之下降到低于1 % 。
Annual GDP grew by more than 3% in 2010 and 2011, because a still-booming Chinese economy was sustaining high demand for German machines and cars; but, as China’s GDP growth has slowed, so has Germany’s, to an annual rate of less than 1%.