China hopes to dominate the next phase of green innovation

By Gabriel Crossley, China correspondent, The Economist

CHINA HAS revolutionised some green technologies in recent years. Spurred by generous government subsidies and cut-throat competition, its companies worked out how to make solar panels, batteries and electric cars efficiently and ever more cheaply. Today China dominates global production of all three. Cheap Chinese technology, now being rapidly rolled out across the world, is helping to decarbonise electricity production, road transport and more.