By 2025, highly autonomous vehicles will be commercialized in limited areas and specific scenarios.

The General Office of the State Council Issued the "New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2021-2035)"

By 2025, highly autonomous vehicles will be commercially available in limited areas and specific scenarios.

November 3, 2020, Chengdu Business Daily (Electronic Edition)

The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2021-2035)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan").

The Plan states that we must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the new development philosophy, focus on deepening supply-side structural reform, adhere to the development direction of electrification, networking, and intelligence, focus on integrated innovation, break through key core technologies, optimize the industrial environment, promote the high-quality and sustainable development of my country's new energy vehicle industry, and accelerate the development of China into an automotive powerhouse.

The Plan proposes that by 2025, the average power consumption of new pure electric passenger vehicles will be reduced to 12.0 kWh/100 km, new energy vehicle sales will reach approximately 20% of total new vehicle sales, and highly autonomous vehicles will be commercially available in limited areas and specific scenarios. By 2035, pure electric vehicles will become the mainstream of new vehicle sales, public vehicles will be fully electrified, fuel cell vehicles will be commercialized, and highly autonomous vehicles will be deployed on a large scale, effectively promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, and improving social efficiency.

The Plan outlines five strategic tasks: First, enhance technological innovation capabilities. Emphasizing both complete vehicles and components, strengthen technological innovation in vehicle integration, enhance the industrial foundation for key components such as power batteries and next-generation automotive motors, and promote the integrated and coordinated development of electrification, connectivity, and intelligent technologies. Second, build a new industrial ecosystem. Led by ecosystem-leading enterprises, accelerate the development and application of automotive operating systems, establish an efficient recycling system for power batteries, strengthen quality and safety assurance, and foster a new industrial ecosystem characterized by mutual integration, symbiosis, division of labor, cooperation, and shared benefits. Third, promote industrial integration. Promote the comprehensive and in-depth integration of new energy vehicles with energy, transportation, and information and communications, promote the optimization of energy consumption structures, enhance the intelligentization of transportation systems and cities, and establish a new pattern of coordinated industrial development. Fourth, improve the infrastructure system. Accelerate the construction of infrastructure such as charging and swapping batteries and hydrogen refueling, improve connectivity, encourage innovative business models, and create a favorable user environment. Fifth, deepen open cooperation. Practice an open, integrated, and mutually beneficial cooperation approach, deepen exchanges and cooperation in areas such as R&D and design, trade and investment, and technical standards, actively participate in international competition, and continuously enhance international competitiveness.

The Plan requires fully leveraging market mechanisms to promote the survival of the fittest, support mergers and reorganizations among leading enterprises, and help them expand and strengthen, further increasing industry concentration. Implement preferential tax policies related to new energy vehicles, optimize categorized traffic management and financial services, provide financial support for the construction of charging stations as public facilities, and offer preferential policies for parking and charging for new energy vehicles. Starting in 2021, new energy vehicles must account for no less than 80% of new or updated public transportation, taxis, and logistics and distribution vehicles in national ecological civilization pilot zones and key areas for air pollution control.

The Plan emphasizes fully leveraging the inter-ministerial joint conference system and local coordination mechanisms for energy-saving and new energy vehicle industry development, strengthening inter-departmental coordination and vertical linkage, formulating annual work plans and departmental task divisions, and ensuring the detailed and effective implementation of the plan. According to Xinhua News Agency,

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