Beijing wants to set the course for China's economic future with green technology. The People's Republic is the leader in the industry, but the sheer flood of panels is leaving the solar industry in other countries in the dark.
The Meyer Burger company recently closed its factory in Freiberg, Saxony, due to price pressure from China. In 2023, China installed significantly more solar modules than Germany added in 2022. Germany added 14 gigawatts of newly installed solar energy to be installed in 2024. China wants to have reached peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2025. The huge solar parks are located in remote areas with good radiation, such as Xinjiang or Inner Mongolia. More and more companies are seeing decentralized solar power as an investment opportunity, also to use the energy themselves and release excess into the energy grid. The Communist Party counts solar cells, batteries and electric cars among the so-called new quality productive forces. Behind this cumbersome term, which the state leadership developed further from Karl Marx's theory, more or less all of the high technologies in which China want to become a leader are hidden.