Yingli’s 4GW-4.2GW guidance follows on the 3.23GW of modules it shipped in 2013 – itself a more than 40% boost on 2012 shipments, and the largest ever recorded in the PV industry.

2013 was the second straight year that Yingli was the world’s largest supplier of modules, having snatched the title in 2012 from a flailing Chinese rival Suntech Power. If the company meets its shipment guidance, it is virtually guaranteed to remain the world’s number one in 2014.

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