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News Digest Item
30 Mar 2017

Chinese rival declares German Solarworld ā€œdeadā€

Handelsblatt Global Edition

The head of Chinese solar panel producer Trina Solar, Gao Jifan, has said German competitor Solarworld was ā€œa company with no competitivenessā€ that would inevitably ā€œdieā€, Stephan Scheuer writes in Handeslblatt Global Edition. Gao, whose company is the world’s leading producer of solar panels, said Solarworld could not ā€œrely on government protectionism or subsidies foreverā€. He also accused the European Commission of ā€œprotectionismā€ in the solar industry to the detriment of European consumers, Scheuer writes, but conceded that the Chinese government also subsidised solar panel manufacturing to some degree.

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