The country will ramp up solar installations overthe next three years as part of a pollution-reduction programme, the NationalDevelopment and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement on its website.

In its wider pronouncements on the issue, the NDRC also said that it wants the grid network connecting the northern cities of Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan to draw 10% of its electricity from onshore wind farms by 2015 and 15% by 2017.

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