China Academy of Building Research

October 23, 2019
Green heat policies in China benefit heat pumps

Several provinces in northern China have implemented green heat policies to avoid air pollution from coal boilers. Beijing was the first province to create a policy in 2016 and others, such as Hebei and Shan Xi, then followed suit. Heat sources and technologies recognised as renewable in...
November 27, 2018
Sun meets 90 % of district heat demand in Tibetan town

On 29 and 30 October, the Solar Academy of the IEA SHC Programme held a 1.5-day training course on solar district heating in Lianyungang, at Sunrain Solar Energy’s headquarters. It provided around 150 researchers, engineers, planners, other technical staff and students from organisations...
July 5, 2018
New coating manufacturer in China

Last December, Shandong-based Sanqiaoneng introduced a new line of absorber plates, which had taken five years to develop. According to the company website, Singaporean investment holding company Rowsley had spent USD 5 million on the design of a selective coating for these metal plates....
April 11, 2018
Second winter for 75,000 m² SDH heating system in Inner Mongolia

Since October 2016, a 75,000 m² parabolic trough collector field for district heat seems to have been operating in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in China. Ruicheng Zheng from the China Academy of Building Research and Hongzhi Cheng said that they had heard about the system, but that...
November 27, 2017
SHC 2017 / He Tao: Improving the Quality in China´s Solar Thermal Market

With more than 400 million square meters of solar collector area, China is the largest market for solar water heaters in the world. Since the 1980ies, the country is working on setting up quality standards and testing labs. Today, 80 percent of the domestically produced solar thermal systems...
January 30, 2017
China: Much Work Needed to Meet 2020 Square-Metre Target of 0.8 Billion

Two large industry events in China over the last months have shown that there is great demand for discussion regarding the transformation of the domestic solar heating and cooling market. The Green Business Forum attracted around 1,000 solar thermal stakeholders to Dezhou in Shandong...
June 27, 2016
China: Challenges and Opportunities of World’s Largest Solar Thermal Market

Reduced real estate investment has been the key reason for the strong decline of China’s solar thermal market. In 2015, the collector area installed annually was down to 43.5 million m² (30.5 GW_th), which almost put the figure back to the level of 2009, and the growth rates in...
September 30, 2014
China: SHC 2014 and Solar Thermal Industry Exhibition

After San Francisco, USA, and Freiburg, Germany, this year’s venue for the International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry is going to be the Chinese capital, Beijing. Researchers from all around the world have been invited to attend the annual...
October 7, 2013
SHC 2013: “Be transparent about the performance”

Europe’s first International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry, the SHC 2013, has been a success. Between 23 and 25 September, around 400 participants from 37 different countries met in Freiburg in the south of Germany to discuss research,...
February 2, 2012
China: Industry Increased Export Business 12-fold

Within 6 years, the Chinese solar thermal industry increased its export business 12-fold, from USD 20 million in 2005 to USD 250 million in 2010. In 2011, the newly installed collector area in China has jumped up another 18 % to 57.6 million m2 (40.3 GW_th). Putting the focus on...
January 17, 2011
China: Major Fairs for Solar Thermal in 2011

China is the largest market for solar thermal products in the world. The annual production of solar water heaters grew from 6.1 million m² in 2000 to 42 million m² in 2009. The importance of the solar thermal sector produced lots of regional and national trade fairs....