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SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Schedule of expected useful lives of property and equipment

Buildings		20 years
Leasehold improvements		Over the shorter of the lease term or their estimated useful lives
Machinery		5-10 years
Furniture, fixtures and equipment		5 years
Motor vehicles		5 years

Schedule of useful life intangible assets

Power purchase agreement ("PPA")		Over the estimated useful lives
Technical know-how		10 years
Computer software		1-10 years

Schedule of gross prepayments made to individual suppliers in excess of 10% of total advances to suppliers

		At December 31, 2014			At December 31, 2015
		$			$
Supplier A			16,268			18,260
Supplier B			10,459			9,086

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Tabular disclosure of the extent of the entity's reliance on its major suppliers, if prepayments with a single supplier amount to 10 percent or more of entity prepayments, including the disclosure of that fact, the total amount of prepayments from each such supplier.

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Tabular disclosure of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance with a finite life, by either major class or business segment.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 350
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
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