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

August 1, 2025

BEIJING, August 1 (Reuters) -China’s biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses.

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