China’s green growth strategy as an industry policy or a green environment policy?

Which features would you highlight as important for understanding China’s growing role on the world market for renewable energy technologies, such as solar panels and wind turbines? You need rare earth metals to manufacture solar panels. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the largest production site for rare earth metals was in California. China has largely taken over this production and produces more than 90 per cent of the world’s rare earths metals. When the Chinese introduced their export quo..