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China Economic Update!
Many capital-and-labor-intensive industries that have relied on bank loans and policy support for their past success are now in deep trouble. Support for the solar industry since late 2008 has resulted in at least one factory producing sun-powered products in half of China’s 600 cities, according to the China Renewable Energy Society in Beijing. China Development Bank, the world’s largest policy lender, alone lent more than 50 billion yuan to solar-panel makers as of August 2012, data from the China Banking Association showed. China accounts for seven of every 10 solar panels produced worldwide. If they ran at full speed, the factories could produce 10 times more than in 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. This overcapacity has driven down prices to about 84 cents a watt, compared with $2 at the end of 2010, but falling prices have forced dozens of producers into bankruptcy. One local bank now reports a 33 percent nonperforming-loan ratio for the solar-panel industry, compared with 2 percent at the beginning of the year.