diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c11db0950390c92a7791e11a82af22afa8895555..9c09b908ad94723e60c3945681c4068e786481d7 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@
 [submodule "src/plugins/taosadapter"]
 	path = src/plugins/taosadapter
 	url = https://github.com/taosdata/taosadapter
+[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