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Title in national language: 
国务院关于促进光伏产业健康发展的若干意见
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2013
Effective Start Year: 
2013
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Other
Economic Sector: 
Power
Energy Types: 
Power, Renewable, Solar
Issued by: 
State Council of China
Notes: 
English translation is in part completed using google translation.
Overall Summary: 
The opinions are put forward to regulate and promote the healthy development of photovoltaic industry through effective policy and financial support of advanced companies, and elimination of ineffective companies. The policy promotes exploration of markets through demonstration projects, coordinated and comprehensive planning, advancement of technology, streamlining of procedures,and strengthening of institutions.The objective is to turn current slowdown in international markets and other problems faced by the PV industry as potential opportunities for the industry to upgrade and update itself. I particular, the dramatic lowering of the cost of photovoltaic power generation provides a highly favorable condition for expanding the domestic photovoltaic market of China.
Access
Energy access priorities: 
Support the use of photovoltaic power generation in remote areas and islands without electricity to solve the power shortage problem.
Renewable Energy
RE priorities: 
Expand the domestic market, improve the technical level, speed up industrial restructuring and upgrading, as the promotion of sustainable and healthy development of the PV industry and basic foothold fundamental way, and establishing domestic market of photovoltaic production, sales and service system ---Vigorously develop distributed photovoltaic power generation markets. ---Orderly photovoltaic power station construction. ---Consolidate and expand the international market. --- Inhibit blind expansion of PV production capacity. --- Accelerate corporate mergers and acquisitions. --- Accelerate the advancement of technology and equipment levels. --- Actively engage in international cooperation.
RE targets: 
For the period 2013-2015, average annual new photovoltaic power generation capacity will be about 10 million kilowatts; by 2015, the total installed new capacity will reach 35 million kilowatts or more.
RE action plans: 
Accelerate the pace of mergers and acquisitions, eliminate poor quality products, backward technology and manufacturing enterprises, cultivating a group of enterprises with strong R & D capabilities and market competitiveness. Accelerate technological innovation and industrial upgrading, improve self-sufficiency of raw materials such as polysilicon and photovoltaic cell manufacturing technology level, significantly reducing the cost of photovoltaic power generation, and improve the competitiveness of the photovoltaic industry. Maintain photovoltaic products at a reasonable share of the international market, and make new progress in foreign trade and investment and financing cooperation. -- Encouraging all kinds of power users in accordance with the "self-generate self-utilize, excess grid feed, grid modification" approach to building distributed PV systems. Prioritize support for industrial and commercial enterprises with high electricity costs, industrial park large scale construction of distributed PV systems. Support schools, hospitals, government agencies, institutions, residents and other community buildings and structures for the promotion of small-scale distributed PV systems. Promote BIPV building in support of photovoltaic applications in new rural construction. --- Coordinate and support grid PV power plant planning and construction, ensure photovoltaic power plants timely generation and efficinet use of grid networks.
RE feed-in tariffs: 
According to resource conditions and construction costs, the development of photovoltaic power plants subregional benchmark feed in tariff should be determined by way of competitive bidding to determine price and subsidy allowances. Based on such factors as changes in the cost of photovoltaic power generation, reasonably lower photovoltaic power plant feed in tariffs and distributed PV subsidy standards. 20-year implementation period principle for tariff and subsidy.
Public competitive bidding/tendering: 
According to resource conditions and construction costs, the development of photovoltaic power plants subregional benchmark feed in tariff should be determined by way of competitive bidding to determine price and subsidy allowances. Based on such factors as changes in the cost of photovoltaic power generation, reasonably lower photovoltaic power plant feed in tariffs and distributed PV subsidy standards.
Cooperation in RE: 
Actively engage in international cooperation.
Pricing
Energy pricing: 
According to resource conditions and construction costs, the development of photovoltaic power plants subregional benchmark feed in tariff should be determined by way of competitive bidding to determine price and subsidy allowances. Based on such factors as changes in the cost of photovoltaic power generation, reasonably lower photovoltaic power plant feed in tariffs and distributed PV subsidy standards. 20-year implementation period principle for tariff and subsidy.
Investment
Intellectual property rights: 
Actively participate in the international photovoltaic industry standards, intellectual property rights standards to increase overseas promotion, promote international mutual recognition of testing and certification.
Overseas investment support: 
Maintain photovoltaic products at a reasonable share of the international market, and make new progress in foreign trade and investment and financing cooperation.
Bidding and Tendering: 
According to resource conditions and construction costs, the development of photovoltaic power plants subregional benchmark feed in tariff should be determined by way of competitive bidding to determine price and subsidy allowances. Based on such factors as changes in the cost of photovoltaic power generation, reasonably lower photovoltaic power plant feed in tariffs and distributed PV subsidy standards.
Governance
Statistics collection and management: 
Carry out monitoring and evaluation of solar energy resources, solar energy information to establish a database.
Technology
Clean energy technology deployment: 
[E]liminate poor quality products, backward technology and manufacturing enterprises, cultivating a group of enterprises with strong R & D capabilities and market competitiveness. Accelerate technological innovation and industrial upgrading, improve self-sufficiency of raw materials such as polysilicon and photovoltaic cell manufacturing technology level, significantly reducing the cost of photovoltaic power generation, and improve the competitiveness of the photovoltaic industry.
R&D renewable energy: 
Construction of 100 large-scale application of distributed PV Demonstration Zones, 1000 PV demonstration towns and a model village. Development of new energy smart microgrids for distributed PV pilot operating characteristics and large-scale applications, demonstration projects, and explore the appropriate power management system and operational mechanism, the formation of distributed PV development to adapt to the construction, operation and consumption of new systems.
Technology collaboration with other member States: 
Actively engage in international cooperation. Encourage enterprises to strengthen international development cooperation, carry out cutting-edge photovoltaic industry, joint research and development of common technology. Encourage qualified domestic photovoltaic companies and base established strategic partnerships with foreign research institutions, industry clusters. Support related research institutes and enterprises to establish an international mechanism to introduce and cultivate talent, innovation and strong focus on training high-end professional and technical personnel and general management personnel.