国际英语新闻:Chinese solar companies form alliance for U.S. antidumping investigation

SHANGHAI, May 24 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese machinery chamber on Thursday announced that it has organized 14 of the country's solar panel companies to cope with an antidumping investigation launched by the United States.

Shi Yonghong, deputy chief of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery of Electronic Products (CCCME), said four leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) products also formed an alliance on Thursday to jointly work on the investigation.

The U.S. antidumping duty ruling on Chinese crystalline silicon PV cells has distorted the facts on the production and export of China's PV industries, Shi said.

"China-produced PV products have price advantages, as the industry chain has developed rapidly in recent years in the country," said Shi, adding that many companies have adopted outstanding management modes and forward-looking strategies with large-scale productions.

The chamber issued a statement on its website to clarify that the competitiveness of Chinese PV products has nothing to do with dumping and that exported PV cells did not do any harm to domestic industries in the U.S.

"The prices of solar panels and other related products have fallen in the U.S. because of a global oversupply of their raw material, crystalline silicon, not due to products made in China," said the statement.

It also said the rights and interests that Chinese companies are entitled to were not protected during the investigation, and it seriously twisted the facts on the production costs of relevant Chinese PV companies, which is arbitrary and result-oriented.

Chinese companies hope the U.S. Commerce Department will "correct the incorrect and unjust acts" committed against these companies in later antidumping investigations, according to the statement.

The development of the green economy can help create new economic growth and tackle energy problems amid the uncertainties of the global economy, Sun Guangbin, head of the solar PV sector under the CCCME.

PV companies from around the world should be aware of fair competition and adhere to the principle of free trade, said Sun, indicating that CCCME will support the alliance.

The alliance not only aims at coping with the U.S.'s anti-dumping probe, but will also be committed to establishing harmonious, free and equal industry order without trade barriers and disputes, said Shi Zhengrong, chairman and chief executive officer of Suntech Power, the world's largest producer of solar panels.

China has become the largest PV products manufacturer as it boasts the output of over 60 percent of PV products in the world.