『Abstract
　The steady and maintainable electric power provides the development momentum of a country's industrialization, which is indispensable to every country at present. It is well known that China is the largest developing country in the world. With the rapid development of economy and society, energy demand of Chinese society is increasing in an incredible speed, i.e., the annual accumulative total capacity of electric energy is about 0.1 billion kW, and the most of them is provided by the fossil fuel resource, and the share is about 90％ in China. Certainly, it is a very inappropriate energy structure, so the sustainable development of country is impossible in future, the status must be improved in order to achieve sustainable development. Fortunately, China has large country area, and there are abundant solar resources. Development and application of solar energy have been regarded by the government and ordinary people, and they thought that solar energy can provide more and more electric energy in future, and more and more actual examples have been applied in the last decades, which are supported by central government and local governments. This paper discusses the distribution zone and current developmental situation of solar energy in China. Then, some application practice is described, such as solar energy greenhouse, solar energy hearth, solar water heater, solar lighting system, solar water pump, distributed generation (DG), grid-connect photovoltaic generation (GPG) and wind-solar hybrid system. The policies and law of China central government and local governments are described in the following paragraph. At the end, the developmental prospect of photovoltaic (PV) in future China and the development barriers and recommendations are introduced.

Keywords: Solar energy; Photovoltaic; Sustainable development; Application practice』

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Geographic profile of China
3. Current energy situation in China
4. Solar energy in China
　4.1. Solar energy resources distribution
　4.2. PV industry development in China
　4.3. PV market development in China
5. Solar energy applications in China
　5.1. Direct utilization of solar heat
　　5.1.1. Solar energy greenhouse (SEG)
　　5.1.2. Solar energy hearth (SEH) and solar heating building (SHB)
　5.2. Indirect utilization of solar heat
　　5.2.1. Solar water heater (SWH)
　　5.2.2. SED and SER and SEHGE
　5.3. PV utilization
　　5.3.1. The city road lighting system
　　5.3.2. Solar water pump
　　5.3.3. Distributed generation (DG)
　　5.3.4. Grid-connect PV generation (GPG)
　　5.3.5. Wind-solar hybrid system
6. PV technologies
7. Renewable energy policies in China
8. Development barriers
9. The prospect of solar energy in China
10. Conclusion and recommendations
Acknowledgments
References