The future of Sinovel – once China’s wind turbine champion and briefly a challenger to Vestas as global number-one OEM – looks as uncertain as ever, a year after it pledged to bounce back from the grueling legal battle with US supplier AMSC that left its ambitions in shreds.

After the conclusion of the AMSC saga in 2018, Sinovel’s management held a media briefing at which company president Ma Zhong said the firm was ready to fight for a comeback as “a second-time start-up”, but that still looks a tough prospect for China’s fallen wind power star.