“The Chinese government has been considering raising the PV targets to 10GW by 2015 and 50GW by 2020,” Liansheng says.

“We strongly believe that China will quickly evolve into one of the largest and most important solar markets in the world.”

Late last year Yingli claimed it had been tapped to supply 70% of the PV modules for the 272MW of projects already allocated under China’s Golden Sun programme.