As the inexhaustible renewable energy as well as the clean energy, solar energy does not cause any environmental pollution. Among various effective applications of solar energy, the photoelectric utilization has been the most booming and vigorous research field in the past years, which enjoys enormous industrialization prospect. In addition, the construction energy consumption accounts for 25% of the total social energy consumption, of which construction heating, air conditioning and illumination respectively share 14%, and building energy consumption holds 11%; and this proportion may be further escalated in the future. Therefore, in the guideline of the 11th Five-Year Plan, Chinese government definitely announced to build up an energy-saving and environment-friendly society. The plan guideline points out that by the year 2010, the GDP energy consumption per unit will be decreased by 20%. Hence, the effective utilization of renewable energy, especially of solar energy, will have far-reaching impact on China's energy structure.

Widely used in outer space, solar lights, solar vehicles and yachts, transportation facilities, communication, home appliances and ground application, solar cell is playing a special role.

The production capacity of newly-built cell production lines in 2005 had exceeded the sum of the past years, amounting to 145.7MW. In 2006, this number surpassed 300MW, and the production capacity reached 1449MW historically, accounting for 70% of the world's gross output.

According to the estimation of SEIA, America's domestic solar energy market may grow at above 35% in the forthcoming 5 years. Recently, DOE allied with insiders engaged in construction industry to launch the plan that boosts Americans to reduce 50% of the electricity consumption in the following two decades. Japan, with special emphasis on solar energy PV power generation, have installed 1.42 million kilowatts by the end of 2005, accounting for 44% of the world's total. The continuous market application promoted the progress in PV cell technology as well as the decline in production cost, and the current market price of PV cell has dropped to about RMB 40 per kilowatt. According to the statistics of European Renewable Energy Institute, by the end of 2006, 25 EU member countries had been using over 20 million square meters of solar panels, and the generated heat energy was equivalent to 14280 MW of power electricity.

China's PV industry has been growing at 30% annually, and domestic PV cell production capacity has reached 100MW. With the support from national ministries and commissions, the efficiency of China's current lab PV cell is 21%, commercialized PV components and normal commercialized cells respectively have the efficiency of 14-15% and 10-13%. At present, China has largely reduced the production cost of solar PV cells, and the price of solar cells has gradually declined from the RMB 40/watt in 2000 to RMB 33/watt in 2003, and to RMB 27/watt in 2004, which not only crucial to the growth and maturity of China's domestic solar energy market, but also significant to the connection with international PV market. For the moment, the cost of China's solar cell is RMB 10/kw to RMB 75/kw. It is estimated that by 2010, the power generation cost of solar PV cells will decline to some RMB 1/kw, reaching or approaching the cost price of routine power generation.

To sum up, along with the increasingly risen demand on environment protection and energy saving as well as the development of solar cell material and technology, solar cell will be more and more widely used and closely linked with people's life. In this sense, solar cell enjoys enormous market application field and vigorous development space.

2 Technical status and development
2.1 Development status and progress of varied solar cells
2.1.1 silicon-series solar cell
2.1.2 Multi-element compound film solar cell
2.1.3 Nano-crystalline chemical solar cell
2.2 Progress in solar cell technologies by country

3 Solar cell industry overview
3.1 Overview on global solar cell industry
3.1.1 Industry scale
3.1.2 Market scale and supply & demand character
3.1.3 Main application field
3.1.4 Status quo of national and regional industries
3.1.5 Latest trend
3.2 Overview on China¡¯s solar cell industry
3.2.1 Industry scale
3.2.2 Market scale and supply & demand character
3.2.3 Latest trend
3.2.4 Profitability of solar cell industry

4 Overview on solar PV industry
4.1 Analysis on solar PV industry
4.1.1 Overview
4.1.2 Status quo
4.1.3 Development
4.2 Analysis on solar PV industry chain
4.2.1 Overview
4.2.2 Upstream industry -- solar cell silicon material industry
4.2.3 Downstream industry -- solar power generation industry
4.3 Competition
4.3.1 Competition in solar PV industry chain
4.3.2 Competition in solar cell industry

5 Main enterprises
5.2 Sharp
5.2 Kyocera
5.3 Shell Solar
5.4 BP Solar
5.5 RWE SCHOTT Solar
5.6 Wuxi Suntech
5.7 Baoding Tianwei Yingli
5.8 NingBo Solar Electric Power Co. Ltd

6 Trend of the solar cell industry in 2006-2010
6.1 Analysis on the growth
6.1.1 Main influential factors to the industry growth
6.1.2 Global and China¡¯s industry growth
6.2 Development trend of this industry
6.2.1 Industry development trend in major countries and regions
6.2.2 Scale and technical trend
6.2.3 Price trend and profit level
6.2.4 Development trend of solar cells by material
6.3 Investment opportunities in main fields
6.3.1 Investment opportunities in segmented industries
6.3.2 Analysis on investment risk
6.3.3 Evaluation on investment value