Damned professors!

“Here in Changsha, Sunzone’s general manager and chief engineer, Zhao Feng, represents a new breed of Chinese clean energy entrepreneurs. Tall and fit, he is an avid painter, fisherman and golfer.

“If I go to Los Angeles for 10 days, I am on a golf course for eight days,” he said.

“A former professor of semiconductors at Hunan University, he has a daughter studying for a doctorate in bioengineering at the University of Chicago on a Pentagon grant, and he owns a house in Chicago a block from President Obama’s.

Mr. Zhao is quick to point out that state and federal governments in the United States have also encouraged the development of the clean energy industry. “Our provincial governor has come several times to our plant, just as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made several visits to solar power companies” in California, he said.

But the Hunan government’s backing of Sunzone is much more extensive than anything in the United States.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/business/global/09trade.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&th&emc=th