China News Service, Chenzhou, October 29 (Reporter Lu Yi) On October 29, the 4th Power Battery Quality and Safety Conference was held in Linwu County, Chenzhou, Hunan. This conference was hosted by the China Consumer Goods Quality and Safety Promotion Association and hosted by the Chenzhou Municipal People's Government. With the theme of "Towards New Quality and Safety in the Whole Chain", more than 400 representatives from universities, scientific research institutions, and industry leading companies across the country participated in the conference to discuss power battery quality and safety pain points and future development paths.
The conference released the "Collaborative Development of Quality and Business Forms: High-Quality Development Report of China's Power Battery Industry". The report points out that China's power and energy storage battery production will reach 1755.6 GWh in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 60.1%; the power battery installed capacity will be 769.7 GWh, accounting for 64.8% of the global installed capacity; the export volume of lithium batteries will be US$76.746 billion, a year-on-year increase of 25.55%. The industrial chain is complete, the technical routes are diverse, and the scale advantage has been established.
The report also points out that leading in scale does not mean leading in quality. The current industry is facing four structural contradictions: the mismatch between supply and demand is deepening, and some inefficient production lines are idle; it is difficult to get high quality at a good price, and quality information has not yet fully entered the transaction process; there is a mismatch between the two ends of recycling, and the capacity of the retired battery standardized recycling system still needs to be improved; governance lags behind the industry form, and the standards on the stock end are mostly recommendations and lack constraints. The report proposes three cracking paths: clearing standards and optimizing the supply structure with quality thresholds; pricing based on quality, allowing quality signals to enter the price; closed-loop value-adding, allowing responsibility to run through all links of production, use, decommissioning, and recycling.
Sun Jinhua, a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, Yang Shunxiu, secretary of the Party Committee of the Fire Protection Product Conformity Assessment Center of the Ministry of Emergency Management, Li Yan, deputy director of the Defective Product Recall Technology Center of the State Administration for Market Regulation, and other experts shared topics on the intrinsic safety research of power batteries, product safety supervision, and the creation of industrial clusters.
At the meeting, the Linwu County People's Government promoted the resource advantages and development prospects of the local lithium battery industry. Chenzhou is the "hometown of non-ferrous metals", and Jijiao Mountain in Linwu is the single lithium mine with the largest proven reserves in the country. In recent years, Chenzhou has anchored the goal of building a "battery capital" and formed a closed loop of the entire industrial chain of "lithium mines-materials-batteries-terminals-recycling". It has established industry-university-research cooperation relationships with more than 10 universities and colleges, and has been approved as a provincial-level quality infrastructure innovation center for the lithium battery new energy industry.
The report summarizes Linwu's practice as the "1355" model: taking the entire industry chain as the main line, running through the entire life cycle, with three front-end control sources of layout, proportioning, and quality, five links of procurement, material selection, manufacturing, application, and recycling, and five layers of guarantees of organization, policy, innovation, elements, and services to support operation. The report believes that Linwu's practice shows that quality construction can precede the formation of production capacity, providing a county sample for resource-based areas to advance quality requirements into the industrial planning and project construction stages.
