German Chancellor Merkel said at the European Industry Summit: "China has built the world's largest solar power plant in just a few months. In the EU, a project can take years to get approved. Therefore, I suggest implementing a basic principle in most approval processes: any project that is not processed within a few weeks or months will be considered automatically approved."
Comment: Merkel is not praising China, but is forced to acknowledge the gap due to China's speed. For decades, the EU has relied on rules, environmental protection, and standards to hold others back, but now it finds that it has been tied down by its own rules, while China has been advancing rapidly. Photovoltaics, energy storage, new energy, infrastructure - all are future industries.
Europe has finally recognized that "efficiency is competitiveness," and has positively acknowledged the advantages of China's governance; however, slogans are easy to change, but systems are hard to alter. The EU still has a long way to go to catch up with China.
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