---- Eine weibliche chinesischer Arbeiter überwacht die Herstellung von Solarzellen verwendet werden Solarzellen im Werk von Lanzhou Shenzhou neue Ene zu machen
--FILE--A female Chinese worker monitors production of photovoltaic cells to be used to make solar panels at the plant of Lianyungang Shenzhou New Energy Co., Ltd. in Lianyungang city, east China's Jiangsu province, 18 August 2016. Between 2008 and 2013, China's fledgling solar-electric panel industry dropped world prices by 80 percent, a stunning achievement in a fiercely competitive high-tech market. China had leapfrogged from nursing a tiny, rural-oriented solar program in the 1990s to become the globe's leader in what may soon be the world's largest renewable energy source. China's move eclipsed the leadership of the U.S. solar industry, which invented the technology, still holds many of the world's patents and led the industry for more than three decades. Just how China accomplished that and why it did is still a matter of concern and debate among U.S. experts.
