MIIT and six other ministries issued a New Battery Industry 15th Five-Year Plan, calling for optimized lithium-battery siting under principles of regional agglomeration and concentration of industrial players. Local governments are to exploit comparative advantages for differentiated, coordinated development. The plan seeks to consolidate the roles of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta and the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area as high-quality growth engines, and to better le

MIIT and six other ministries issued a New Battery Industry 15th Five-Year Plan, calling for optimized lithium-battery siting under principles of regional agglomeration and concentration of industrial players. Local governments are to exploit comparative advantages for differentiated, coordinated development. The plan seeks to consolidate the roles of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta and the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area as high-quality growth engines, and to better leverage Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang coastal city clusters to accelerate the formation of advanced new-battery manufacturing clusters. It instructs using the Yangtze Economic Belt, Yellow River basin and Northeast industrial bases to strengthen, fill and upgrade battery supply chains, and tapping central and western region resources to boost supply-chain resilience.