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Rebecca Bailey with Matthew Walsh in Beijing

China's Solar Sector Blazes Trail In Commitment To Renewables

China is building almost twice as much wind and solar capacity as every other country combined (Credit: AFP)

Hundreds of rows of gleaming panels blanket swathes of scrubby sand at sunset in a remote northern Chinese desert -- once the biggest solar farm in the world.

On the edge of the forbidding Tengger desert, the solar park produces 1.5 gigawatts of power -- but it has since been eclipsed and the largest is now further west with more than double the capacity.

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