China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has reported that in the first seven months of 2023, the country manufactured 276.6 GW of photovoltaic cells, and that all solar exports combined reached a value of $32.47 billion, while domestic installations reached 97.2 GW. These figures annualize to 474 GW, $56 billion, and 167 GW, and the actual figures will be more like 500 GW, $50 billion (most exports are in the middle of the year), and 175 GWac / 210 GWdc. China’s “whole county promotion” rooftop scheme had reached 37 GW installed as of the end of April 2023, having first been announced in June 2021. While the scheme is still going strong across the 676 municipalities which participated, this…