Editorial

China’s companies are important players in the global transformation toward greater climate protection. They dominate the solar supply chains and are also growing very strongly in the wind energy sector. Plans for e-cars are also ambitious, as Christian Domke Seidel reports. Manufacturers are being urged by the government to soon sell a larger share of their products abroad. The hope of even greater sales is also making suppliers strive for foreign markets. But the European market is considered particularly difficult terrain – this is due to different customer wishes, a lack of charging infrastructure and the absence of a distribution network.