This week it further underlined its role as the global leader in renewable energy by switching on the world s largest floating solar power plant.
China solar panels on water.
The sungrow solar farm is just one tiny piece in china s push towards renewable.
Workers prepare panels that will be part of the massive solar farm.
Today china invests more each year in wind hydro and solar power than any other country on earth.
A worker carries two flotation devices that keep the panels above water.
2016 to help power the thames water treatment plant.
Being on water the panels will not overheat and won t disrupt local ecosystems.