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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>As
Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November&nbsp;30, 2009</B></DIV>


<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Registration No.&nbsp;333-_____</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549<BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
<I>UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</I></B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt"><B>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</B></DIV>

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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Cayman Islands<BR>
(State or other jurisdiction of <BR>
Incorporation or Organization)</B>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Not Applicable<BR>
(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
Identification No.)</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>9 Xinhua Road <BR>
New District, Wuxi <BR>
Jiangsu Province 214028<BR>
People&#146;s Republic of China<BR>
(86)&nbsp;510-8531-8982</B></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt"><B>(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant&#146;s<BR>
principal executive offices)</B></DIV>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan<BR>
(Full title of the Plan)</B><BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CT Corporation System<BR>
111 Eighth Avenue<BR>
New York, NY 10011<BR>
(212)&nbsp;894-8940<BR>
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</B></DIV>

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<B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B></DIV>

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    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2"><B>Amount to be</B></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Title of Securities to be Registered</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Registered (1)</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Offering Price(2)</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Ordinary Shares, $0.01 par value per share(3)</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap colspan="3" align="center">5,000,000 shares</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">70,650,000</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">3,943</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(1)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Represents 5,000,000 additional shares reserved for issuance under the
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;).
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), this Registration Statement includes an
indeterminate number of additional shares which may be offered and
issued to prevent dilution from stock splits, stock dividends or
similar transactions as provided in the above-referenced plan.</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(2)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
in accordance with Rule&nbsp;457(h)(1) under the Securities Act, and based
upon an average of the high and low sales prices for the Registrant&#146;s
common stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on
November&nbsp;27, 2009.</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(3)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>These shares may be represented by the Registrant&#146;s American
Depositary Shares, each of which represents one ordinary share.
American Depositary Shares issuable upon deposit of the securities
registered hereby have been registered under a separate registration
statement on Form F-6 (333-129376).</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>PART I</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>STATEMENT PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Incorporation by Reference of Previous Registration Statement</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the Registrant is filing this Registration Statement
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) to register an additional 5,000,000
shares under the Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to General
Instruction E, the contents of the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No.
333-137125) filed on September&nbsp;6, 2006 are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration
Statement.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>PART II</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>ITEM 8. Exhibits</B>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">5.1
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">10.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan (File No.
333-129367) filed with the Commission on November&nbsp;1, 2005 as Exhibit
10.1 to the Registrant&#146;s registration statement).</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Maples and Calder (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1)</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd.</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">24.1
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the People&#146;s Republic of China on November&nbsp;30, 2009.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left"><B>Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.</B><BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Dr. Zhengrong Shi
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Dr. Zhengrong Shi&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">Title:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Chairman of the Board and<BR>
Chief Executive Officer&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby
constitute and appoint Dr.&nbsp;Zhengrong Shi and Amy Yi Zhang, and each of them, as his or her true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with the full power of substitution and re-substitution,
for and in such person&#146;s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and to file the
same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
done in connection therewith and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or
she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or any of them, or their, his or her substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on November&nbsp;30, 2009.
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Dr.&nbsp;Zhengrong Shi</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
Zhengrong Shi
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer<BR>

(principal executive officer)</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Jason E. Maynard</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
Jason E. Maynard
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">Director</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/
Zhi Zhong Qiu</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
Zhi Zhong Qiu
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">Director</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Susan Wang</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
Susan Wang
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">Director</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Julian Worley</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
Julian Worley
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">Director</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Amy Yi Zhang</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
Amy Yi Zhang
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom">Director and Chief Financial Officer
<BR>
(principal financial and accounting officer)</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>Signature of authorized representative in the United States</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in
the United States of Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., has signed this Registration Statement or
amendment thereto in San Francisco, California, on November&nbsp;30, 2009.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Kim H. Liou
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Kim H. Liou&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>

    <TD valign="top">Title:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Authorized Representative&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>EXHIBIT INDEX</B>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan (File No.
333-129367) filed with the Commission on November&nbsp;1, 2005 as
Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 to the Registrant&#146;s registration statement).</TD>
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</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Maples and Calder (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1)</TD>
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As
Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 30, 2009
Registration No. 333-_____
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Cayman Islands
(State or other jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
Not Applicable
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
9 Xinhua Road
New District, Wuxi
Jiangsu Province 214028
People's Republic of China
(86) 510-8531-8982
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's
principal executive offices)
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the Plan)
CT Corporation System
111 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
(212) 894-8940
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Amount to be
Aggregate
Amount of
Title of Securities to be Registered
Registered (1)
Offering Price(2)
Registration Fee
Ordinary Shares, $0.01 par value per share(3)
5,000,000 shares
$
70,650,000
$
3,943
(1)
Represents 5,000,000 additional shares reserved for issuance under the
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan").
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Securities Act"), this Registration Statement includes an
indeterminate number of additional shares which may be offered and
issued to prevent dilution from stock splits, stock dividends or
similar transactions as provided in the above-referenced plan.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
in accordance with Rule 457(h)(1) under the Securities Act, and based
upon an average of the high and low sales prices for the Registrant's
common stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on
November 27, 2009.
(3)
These shares may be represented by the Registrant's American
Depositary Shares, each of which represents one ordinary share.
American Depositary Shares issuable upon deposit of the securities
registered hereby have been registered under a separate registration
statement on Form F-6 (333-129376).
PART I
STATEMENT PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E
Incorporation by Reference of Previous Registration Statement
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the Registrant is filing this Registration Statement
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") to register an additional 5,000,000
shares under the Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to General
Instruction E, the contents of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No.
333-137125) filed on September 6, 2006 are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration
Statement.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 8. Exhibits
5.1
Opinion of Maples and Calder
10.1
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan (File No.
333-129367) filed with the Commission on November 1, 2005 as Exhibit
10.1 to the Registrant's registration statement).
23.1
Consent of Maples and Calder (included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2
Consent of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd.
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on signature page hereto)
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the People's Republic of China on November 30, 2009.
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.
By:
/s/ Dr. Zhengrong Shi
Name:
Dr. Zhengrong Shi
Title:
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby
constitute and appoint Dr. Zhengrong Shi and Amy Yi Zhang, and each of them, as his or her true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with the full power of substitution and re-substitution,
for and in such person's name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and to file the
same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
done in connection therewith and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or
she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or any of them, or their, his or her substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on November 30, 2009.
Signature
Capacity
/s/ Dr. Zhengrong Shi
Zhengrong Shi
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)
/s/ Jason E. Maynard
Jason E. Maynard
Director
/s/
Zhi Zhong Qiu
Zhi Zhong Qiu
Director
/s/ Susan Wang
Susan Wang
Director
/s/ Julian Worley
Julian Worley
Director
/s/ Amy Yi Zhang
Amy Yi Zhang
Director and Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial and accounting officer)
Signature of authorized representative in the United States
Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in
the United States of Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., has signed this Registration Statement or
amendment thereto in San Francisco, California, on November 30, 2009.
By:
/s/ Kim H. Liou
Name:
Kim H. Liou
Title:
Authorized Representative
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT
NUMBER
DESCRIPTION
5.1
Opinion of Maples and Calder
10.1
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. Equity Incentive Plan (File No.
333-129367) filed with the Commission on November 1, 2005 as
Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant's registration statement).
23.1
Consent of Maples and Calder (included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2
Consent of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd.