China's solar giants quietly shed a third of their workforces last year

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/chinas-solar-giants-quietly-shed-third-their-workforces-last-year-2025-08-01/

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DavidGarcia@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

automation or shrinking business?

scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 5 pts · 1y

Looks like there are just too many companies in general. In my non-expert opinion seems like it it was because the country was a little too gungho about making more solar so they said it would be one of the big groth areas leading to a bunch if new developments. Then because there were so many of them they started competing with eachother and driving the pices down until they were unable to continue.

I would recommend reading the article tbh seems like good if dry information.

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y

Oversupply. They pushed the price so low that the government is trying to put pressure on them to normalize the prices.