2008Sept24: 600,000 people in China are employed in solar thermal making and installing products such as solar water heaters, according to the Green Job report, which was funded and commissioned by the UN Environment Programme (UN, 2008).
Reference: UN. 2008. http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=545&ArticleID=5929&l=
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