Chinese third-party, Internet-based business information services provider Analysys International recently released its annual report, titled "Semiconductor -- China's Solar Energy Market Annual Report 2005-2006," which finds that the shortage of poly silicon in the Chinese market will serve to bottleneck the development of the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in the coming years.

"Overseas enterprises have established alliances and blocked the technology in this market," said Analysys International analyst Zhao Yuewang. "Chinese enterprises currently lack a technical strength of productivity of thousands of tons....[T]he enormous shortage of poly silicon in the solar PV energy industry by 2008 should not be neglected by intent players."

According to Analysys International, only productivity beyond 1,000 tons could prove economically effective and competitive due to the high capital and technical requirements of poly silicon projects.