The only thing Australia leads in research and manufacturing is excuses.

Australia leads the world in excuse technology.

http://himinsolarpv.com/images/pic2b.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/china%E2%80%99s-solar-valley-lives-the-motto:-%E2%80%98solar-everything%E2%80%99/7475158


Quote:

China's Solar Valley - 'Solar everything' It was set up ten years ago by Huang Ming, an entrepreneur and engineer, nicknamed ‘The Solar King’. Built as a model solar town in Dezhou, Shandong Province, 300km south of Beijing, it includes solar research labs, solar heater factories, a solar college, and a solar hotel and convention centre. The concept coincides with a government policy turning China away from coal-fuelled energy towards renewable energy. China is now the biggest investor in renewable energy in the world (overtaking Germany in 2015), and in 2014 its coal consumption fell for the first time since its recent period of industrialization began. The Australian government has often used China as an excuse for not taking strong action on climate change, but that argument is redundant now that China is taking up renewable energy faster than any other country. Peter Hadfield reports.

From your link-

"and in 2014 its coal consumption fell for the first time since its recent period of industrialization began."

"China's 2016 coal imports jump 25 percent: customs"

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-coal-idUSKBN14X0AZ

And still taking coal faster. ;)

lee wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 12:52pm:

From your link- "and in 2014 its coal consumption fell for the first time since its recent period of industrialization began." "China's 2016 coal imports jump 25 percent: customs" http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade-coal-idUSKBN14X0AZ And still taking coal faster. ;)

Which Australia is eager to supply.