Wan Gang, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Council and the Minister of Science and Technology, have recently made an important comment on the research report “Cause analysis and countermeasure suggestions for the frequent anti-dumping and anti-subsidy actions against Chinese photovoltaic industry” by Professor Li Jian, director of Strategic Emerging Industries Research Center of Economics and Management Scholl, a Hubei provincial research foundation of soft sciences. He urged relevant departments of the Ministry to pay diligence to the issue and consider the possibility to establish a new key research and development project in the field of renewable energy in order to strengthen our scientific support for the photovoltaic industry.

Professor Li Jian argued that to counteract the frequent anti-dumping and anti-subsidy actions against our PV industry, we should accelerate our domestic adoption of PV products, and decrease the PV industry’s over-dependence on foreign markets; our exportation strategy can be improved, keeping us from “putting all eggs in one basket”; the PV sector needs to optimize its industry structure and raise its own core competencies. The report also suggested that in some cases, equal paybacks can also be a necessary countermeasure to anti-dumping actions, and the government should take prompt retaliatory actions against foreign products.

In other news: Professor Li Jian’s Research Report Adopted by Counsellors’ Office of the State Council

“Greater effort on increasing the core competencies of our photovoltaic industry”, a research report by Professor Li Jian, director of our school’s Strategic Emerging Industries Research Center, a Hubei provincial research foundation of soft sciences, has recently been adopted by the Counsellors’ Office of the State Council, as the top story in the combined Mar & Apr 2015 issue of the “National Affairs Consultation” magazine to be delivered to central government leaders.

In the report, Professor Li Jian suggested that the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy actions by foreign governments against our photovoltaic industry have exposed some deep-lying issues in said industry. In a sense, these sanctions can benefit us by forcing us to accelerate the reformation of our development pattern and industrial structures, and make a greater effort to increase the core competency of our PV industry.