diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 161db96b277de95d29b47d9f93fedef056a672fa..23f279efa03d2bf6c3a8990daf8436d3e0f2effc 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@
 [submodule "deps/TSZ"]
 	path = deps/TSZ
 	url = https://github.com/taosdata/TSZ.git
+[submodule "examples/rust"]
+	path = examples/rust
+	url = https://github.com/songtianyi/tdengine-rust-bindings.git
diff --git a/examples/rust b/examples/rust
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c8924dc668e6aa848214c2fc54e3ace3f5bf8df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rust
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 1c8924dc668e6aa848214c2fc54e3ace3f5bf8df