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How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator. A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.
A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.
Accused for years of copying the technologies of other countries, China now dominates the renewable energy landscape not just in terms of patent filings and research papers,but in what analysts say are major contributions that will help to move the world away from fossil fuels. “It is the opposite of an accident,” said Jenny Wong Leung, an analyst and data scientist at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which created a database of global research on technologies that are critical to nations’ economic and military security, including clean energy. In mid-2015, the Chinese government announced a program called “Made in China 2025.” It would provide companies in 10 strategic industries with large, low-interest loans from state-owned investment funds and development banks, assistance in acquiring foreign competitors and generous subsidies for scientific research.
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