China for resolving trade disputes with Indian solar panel companies

BEIJING: The Chinese government today asked solar panel makers from China and India to continue with talks and cooperate to solve trade frictions, state run Xinhua reported.

Reacting to reports that panel makers in India filed applications for an anti-dumping investigation against solar panels made in China and other countries, Commerce Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said, "producers from both countries should diffuse disputes through dialogue", it said.

Earlier, he said companies from the two countries had agreed to conduct technology cooperation in this area.

"If the Indian authorities insist on launching probes into China-made solar panels, it will not only hurt the two country's cooperation in the new energy sector, but will also cause harm to India's local companies," Xinhua quoted him as saying.