The focus of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) is to develop via a panel of experts, a plan of action and a platform that will actively support scientific innovations that specifically involve solar energy. This would include basic studies, applications studies and market research. To be carried out in a total of three phases, the plan targets “distributed utilization” by 2015, “alternative utilization” by 2025 and “ large-scale utilization” by 2035.