In the next five years, Chinese PV will take the “Tour East” road

"The total installed capacity of PV development in western China accounts for about 70% of the total capacity, while the Middle-East only account for 30%.” On 26th in Beijing, The deputy director of China National Energy Administration of New Energy Liang zhipeng said, “Tour East” will taken as the development direction of China’s PV during “Thirteen Five” period.
Liang Zhipeng held the in 2016 China PV case statements leaders Forum. He think that the presence of Chinese PV “West in East and Strong in West” phenomenon, and the imbalance development of geographical area resulting "abandoned light brownouts." in many areas.
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (hereinafter referred to as "NDRC") officials Houshou Li presented at the forum, in 2015, China’s abandoned light rate are 11%, Gansu and Xinjiang abandoned light rate are as high as 31% and 26%, “those problems have a greater impact to the income of western solar power system.” in addition, the severe brownout conditions for Western PV power generation project is also an important factor in increasing returns obstacles.“ ‘Thirteen Five’ focus on the development of China Middle East area’s distributed PV generation.” NDRC international Energy Research Institute deputy director Baijun said, in western investment, construction of PV power plant’s heat and focused point should shifted to the east, we should further improve the distributed energy system in eastern regions. “the Western electricity consumptive capacity are not as much as Eastern, Middle-East are consumer center, there are huge market capacity of electric power.”
Liang Zhipeng gives a specific method for “Tour East,” that is through electricity price reforms, in terms of price transmission, to give a preferential condition for distributed photovoltaic power plants, so that shift the West centralized PV power plant to East distributed PV power plant.
Some people believe that, in addition to “ Tour East”, in the China’s PV industry, they need to establish a unified plan from the top-level design of PV electricity. Thus speeding up the PV electricity inter-regional channel construction and improve the delivery capacity of PV power industry during the “Thirteen Five” upgrade.
The data shows that, in the end of “Twelve Five”, China’s total PV installed capacity reached 43.18 million kilowatts, it’s the first time to exceed Germany and ranking No.1 in the world.