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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 14 (2010) 301–311 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews journal homepage: ww w.el /locat e/rser Solar energy development in China—A review Li-qun Liu a,b,*, Zhi-xin Wang a, Hua-qiang Zhang a, Ying-cheng Xue a a Department of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240 Shanghai, China b Department of Electronic and Information, Taiyuan University of Science Technology, 030024 Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: The steady and maintainable electric power provides the development momentum of a country’s Received 7 March 2009 industrialization, which is indispensable to every country at present. It is well known that China is the Received in revised form 18 July 2009 largest developing country in the world. With the rapid development of economy and society, energy Accepted 7 August 2009 demand of Chinese society is increasing in an incredible speed, i.e., the annual accumulative total capacity of electric energy is about 0.1 billion kW, and the most of them is provided by the fossil fuel Keywords: resource, and the share is about 90% in China. Certainly, it is a very inappropriate energy structure, so the Solar energy