The Dongying, China-based integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, CNPV Solar Power SA, has announced the launch of a series premium photovoltaic modules with power ranging from 240Wp-250Wp and made with high efficiency 156×156mm mono crystalline cells.

Baoding-based Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, a vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturer, has signed a sales agreement with Payom Solar AG, a leading PV rooftop system specialist based in Germany, to supply 51 MW of PV modules to Payom in 2010.

Wuxi-based Suntech Power Holdings, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic modules, recently announced that it had achieved a new world record conversion efficiency of 15.6% on a commercial grade multi-crystalline silicon PV module.

Baoding-based Yingli Green Energy, has signed an agreement to supply U.S. distributed power company Recurrent Energy with crystalline photovoltaic modules through to 2012 for use in Recurrent Energy's distributed solar projects.

The German industrial conglomerate Siemens is expanding its global manufacturing network for wind turbine plants and is building a new facility to produce rotor blades and nacelles in Lingang New City in Shanghai.

Circuit protection products company Littelfuse has announced restructuring plans which include consolidating the company’s Taiwan wafer fabrication facility into Wuxi in China.

Sweden-based Orexo and the Chinese pharmaceutical company NovaMed Pharmaceuticals have signed an exclusive licensing and distribution agreement that grants NovaMed rights to seek approval for the marketing and distributing of Abstral Orexo´s product for treatment of breakthrough cancer pain in mainland China and, if granted, to market and sell the product in that market.

Solar Power has completed the first sale to a prominent German solar integrator of its photovoltaic solar modules which are manufactured in China.

The European Union has passed a new dictate on toy safety which reportedly has listed Chinese toy makers as the main target of supervision as the "Made in China" toys have taken up the majority of Europe's toy market.

Yingli Green Energy, a Chinese vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturer, has entered into a new long-term polysilicon supply agreement with German company Wacker Chemie AG.