SEGMENT REPORTING (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

SEGMENT REPORTING [Abstract]

Schedule of the Company's revenues generated from each segment

	Year ended December 31, 2014
	Wafer		Cell and module		Solar power projects		Other		Elimination		Total
Net sales	$	1,416,614,234	$	1,311,867,301	$	8,740,222	$	695,750	$	(1,176,420,479)	$	1,561,497,028
Gross profit	$	71,483,745	$	134,289,199	$	3,901,264	$	36,679	$	(427,602)	$	209,283,285

	Year ended December 31, 2015
	Wafer		Cell and module		Solar power projects		Other		Elimination		Total
Net sales	$	1,032,418,596	$	1,024,331,572	$	116,289,676	$	1,044,975	$	(892,053,374)	$	1,282,031,446
Gross profit	$	62,884,189	$	88,563,261	$	22,007,895	$	600,087	$	13,818,412	$	187,873,844

	Year ended December 31, 2016
	Wafer		Cell and module		Solar power projects		Other		Elimination		Total
Net sales		1,018,667,813		712,503,016		85,955,337		45,708,768		(932,998,645)		929,836,289
Gross profit		79,317,633		37,515,810		7,482,057		6,200,915		(21,020,333)		109,496,082

Schedule of the Company's revenues generated from each product

	Years ended December 31,
	2014		2015		2016
Solar modules	$	1,309,008,400	$	920,271,824	$	547,316,223
Solar wafers		182,513,034		163,700,069		223,606,146
Solar power project		-		110,737,934		83,107,906
Other materials		40,975,806		61,932,953		48,800,671
Solar cells		12,422,486		8,266,709		5,873,645
Electricity		8,740,222		5,649,282		2,847,431
Service revenue from tolling arrangement		7,837,080		11,472,675		18,284,267
Total	$	1,561,497,028	$	1,282,031,446	$	929,836,289

Schedule of the Company's revenues generated by geographic location of customers

	Years ended December 31,
	2014		2015		2016
Mainland China	$	227,182,419	$	264,803,111	$	452,572,919
Taiwan		43,696,851		34,710,699		41,390,952
Australia		58,621,500		26,445,835		9,004,912
Singapore		10,506,110		23,478,282		28,060,571
Korea		21,120,646		8,765,334		7,342,063
India		51,256,611		135,768,107		117,189,159
Hong Kong		63,899		61,240		400,031
Thailand		-		7,767,452		3,121,450
Japan		369,369,451		298,855,541		80,639,530
Asia Pacific Total	$	781,817,487	$	800,655,601	$	739,721,587
Germany		147,261,159		53,603,098		3,612,885
Greece		310,076		103,193		-
Belgium		1,164,431		18,252,371		-
America		170,717,859		50,176,517		23,507,186
Italy		5,781,328		4,013,709		944,844
France		89,635,307		3,529,467		2,882,919
Spain		39,246,414		202,527		-
Czech Republic		2,628,333		4,861,462		-
England		224,990,352		242,425,493		81,761,719
Netherlands		3,234,732		4,706,979		-
South Africa		13,912,446		17,068,687		5,769,575
Others		80,797,104		82,432,342		71,635,574
Total	$	1,561,497,028	$	1,282,031,446	$	929,836,289