Dear guests and friends,
Good morning! It is my pleasure joining you in Yangzhong for discussing the development of green energy. On behalf of the China Photovoltaic Industry Association, I would like to extend our cordial thanks to all of you for holding this International Green Energy Development Conference.
The international community has reached a consensus on vigorous development of green energy as it is an important part of the environmental protection initiative and a well-functioning ecosystem. Moreover, China’s energy sector has also realized the significance of green energy development and is now focusing it with greater clarity.
In this process, the photovoltaic (PV) industry, adopting the semiconductor technology and catering to the demand in the new energy market has been an exemplary endeavor in its own right. It is ensuring remarkable advantages in cleanness, non-exhaustion and safety, among others.
The PV industry is developing into a fierce competition amongst various countries. At the end of last year, the newly installed PV capacity exceeded 1GW in 24 countries and surpassed 10MW in 112 countries. The year 2016, therefore, became the first to see PV outperforming all other power sources with its most efficient capacity building.
In the 21st century, the Chinese have made this business a growing enterprise in a competitive environment. The newly installed PV capacity has been growing at a rapid pace. In year 2000, it was just 3MW, which developed to 34.54GW in 2016. Moreover, its cumulative capacity has expanded from 19MW in 2000 to 77GW in 2016, which amounts to a ten thousand times increase.
China has remained the world’s largest producer of PV modules for a decade in a row, and PV products made in China accounted for more than two thirds of the world’s total. For four consecutive years, it also has been the leading country in the world in terms of developing new PV capacity. In the list of world’s top 10 PV manufacturers of 2016, five companies for polysilicon, nine for silicon wafers, seven for solar cells and eight for modules were based in mainland China.
To date, China’s PV industry has sustained a high-speed growth momentum. In the first half of 2017, the polysilicon output rose to 115 thousand tons registering 21 percent yearly growth rate, the module output exceeded 34GW at 25.8 percent per year, and the newly installed capacity amounted to 24.40GW. PV has become one of the few Chinese industries that can participate in international competition and has competitive advantages in mass production.
Yangzhong is among the group of demonstration cities, which are approved by the National Energy Administration for higher percentage of new energy use. Over recent years, the city has picked up pace in developing a production and consumption model characterized by a higher usage of renewable energy, which is clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient, and has set a target of building a “Green Energy Island”. While vigorously developing the PV industry based on its vast reserve of high-end specialists in PV, Yangzhong has also released a series of supportive policies including the “Guideline for Accelerating the Pilot Exercise of Distributed PV Power Generation”.
Focusing on “Global Use of Green Energy and Practice in Yangzhong”, this conference is co-held in the beautiful Yangzhong by China Economic Information Service under Xinhua News Agency, the Government of Yangzhong and the China Photovoltaic Industry Association. We believe, the conference will depict a brighter future of green energy application and further promote the rapid and healthy development of the energy sector in China and over the rest of the world.
We believe that the green energy market will expand further as the energy revolution advances. We will certainly witness another round of swift growth in the green energy sector by responding to challenges with innovated technology efficiently regulating its domestic market along with an expansion of the international market.
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