>>520290244
>The other players died because they were living on government subsidies.
everyone was (and still is) living from subsidies, before the finicial crisis the whole chink PV market was nearly 100% export oriantated to europe. Europeans payed for the raise of the chiniese solar industry with tax money.

With the crash there was the first cutback on the massive subsidies which also partially hit the chinks, but much more the european producers because of the much higher manufacturing costs (and energy costs), china at the time was mostly producing its power bia coal at that time (and still is).

To save their industry the chinks basically began with domestic programs to support their PV industry.
Here is a pretty decent timeline what happened.

It basically always boils down to the same shit... peopel making/made cash by outsourcing production to china and now china fucks them in the ass. Also retarded euocrates fuck the EU in the ass with theri decions for decades now.