Thecompany – currently the world’s biggest module supplier – said China, along with the US and Japan, are the engines of growth for its business, even asEurope undergoes a period of “adjustments”.

Steadyingprices and reducing costs continued to help profitability. Yingli’sthird-quarter gross margin beat expectations at 13.7%, rising from 11.8% in theprevious quarter.

Thecompany pulled in revenues of 3.65bn yuan in the third quarter, up 8% on its Q2showing.