China’s next five-year plan will likely put a finer point on targets for small-scale distributed PV as well as a planned solar build-out in the country’s energy-starved and impoverished western regions, predicts Liansheng Miao, Yingli’s chairman and chief executive.

“We believe the government will announce some new potential demand” beyond the 100GW target, Miao said in a conference call Wednesday, using chief financial officer Yiyu Wang as a translator.

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