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Photovoltaic (PV) production and installation surge in recent years because of technology development and policy orientation. However, due the deadlines of subsidy set by Chinese government, most of the PV projects are carried out in a hurry and quality issues appear. Some equipment turn out to be inferiors. The demand for subsequent treatment for PV components will surge in the early future. However, the insufficiency of recycle facilities and supporting policies, lack of public focus, make it difficult. For a better planning of PV recycle, an optimization model is applied to study on the optimal deployment of PV recycle centers in China during 2040 to 2045 based on cost minimization. Transportation cost for PV modules, capital cost and operational cost for recycle center in different provinces are taken into consideration of objective functions. The result indicates that the peak of PV components recycle will arrive around 2042. At the early stage, recycle centers will be established in Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Shanxi province, considering the intensive installation and convenient transportation. The discarded PV panels will be transported to those provinces. Then, as the recycle demand surging, recycle centers will be scattered in many provinces, such as Jiangsu, Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and so on. Most of the PV components will be recycled within the installed provinces.