The strategic co-operation underscores what Jinko chiefexecutive Kangping Chen recently described as the company’s “rapidly expanding”downstream PV business.  

The deal in Ningxia will see Jinko investing 4.6bn yuan($750m) into the utility-scale project and a number of “PV-related supportingfacilities” in Lingwu City.

Jinko’s young downstream business has connected about 100MWof PV capacity to date, but its 1.1GW pipeline speaks to the company's ambitions for theunit.