The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will strengthen the management of the lithium-ion battery industry and guide enterprises to reduce the number of projects that simply expand production capacity.

(VI) The transportation of lithium-ion batteries shall comply with the requirements of Section 38.3 of Part III of the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods - Manual of Tests and Criteria. Lithium-ion batteries transported by air shall comply with the relevant requirements of the ICAO Technical Specifications for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air and the Civil Aviation Administration of China Regulations on the Management of Dangerous Goods Transport by Civil Aviation, and comply with the Lithium Battery Air Transport Specifications (MH/T1020) and the Lithium Battery Air Transport Test Specifications (MH/T1052). The packaging of exported lithium-ion batteries shall comply with the requirements of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity Inspection and its implementing regulations.

(VII) The production, storage, use, recycling, treatment and disposal of lithium-ion batteries shall comply with the relevant safety requirements of laws, regulations and standards, and effective safety control measures shall be taken.

V. Comprehensive Utilization of Resources and Environmental Protection

(I) Enterprises and projects should comply with the land use standards issued by the state, strictly protect cultivated land, and use land economically and intensively.

(II) Enterprises should formulate unit consumption indicators and energy consumption accounts for their products, and shall not use backward energy-consuming equipment and production processes that have been eliminated by the state and seriously pollute the environment. Enterprises are encouraged to adjust their energy use structure, use clean energy such as photovoltaics, carry out research on the application of energy-saving technologies, formulate energy-saving regulations and systems, develop common and key technologies for energy conservation, and promote innovation in energy-saving technologies and transformation of results. The comprehensive energy consumption of lithium-ion battery enterprises should be ≤400kgce/10,000Ah.

(III) Enterprises are encouraged to increase resource recovery and comprehensive utilization in the front-end design of products, and improve the comprehensive management of resources throughout the entire life cycle of lithium-ion battery production, sales, use, recovery, and comprehensive utilization.

(IV) Enterprises should carry out environmental impact assessments of construction projects in accordance with the law, strictly implement the "three simultaneous" system of environmental protection facilities, and carry out acceptance inspections of completed environmental protection facilities in accordance with regulations.

(V) Lithium-ion battery manufacturers should apply for pollutant discharge permits in accordance with the law, discharge pollutants in accordance with the pollutant discharge permits and implement various environmental management requirements; take effective measures to prevent soil and groundwater pollution; solid wastes such as waste organic solvents and waste batteries should be classified, stored, collected, transported, comprehensively utilized or harmlessly treated in accordance with the law.

(VI) Enterprises should formulate emergency response plans for environmental emergencies in accordance with relevant national regulations and properly handle environmental emergencies. Enterprises should disclose environmental information in accordance with the relevant requirements of the "Reform Plan for the Legal Disclosure of Environmental Information".

(VII) Enterprises should establish an environmental management system and are encouraged to pass third-party certification. Enterprises are encouraged to continue to carry out clean production audits, and clean production indicators should reach Level III or above in the "Battery Industry Clean Production Evaluation Index System".

VI. Health and Social Responsibility

(I) Enterprises should conduct occupational disease hazard assessments in accordance with the law, implement the "three simultaneous" system requirements for occupational disease protection facilities, abide by the Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Law, and implement national standards or industry standards for protecting occupational health.

(2) Enterprises should implement occupational disease prevention and control management measures in accordance with the law.

3. Enterprises should establish an occupational health and safety management system and are encouraged to obtain third-party certification.

(IV) Enterprises shall pay taxes in accordance with the law and make timely and full contributions to pension insurance, medical insurance, work-related injury insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance and housing provident funds for their employees.

VII. Supervision and Management

(I) Enterprises shall voluntarily prepare application materials in accordance with the conditions of this specification and submit them to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology through the provincial industrial and information technology authorities according to the principle of territoriality. The industrial and information technology authorities at all levels shall, together with relevant departments, conduct on-site verification of the implementation of the conditions of this specification by local enterprises. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shall organize research institutions and testing institutions to inspect enterprises, regularly announce the list of enterprises that meet the conditions of this specification, and, together with relevant departments, organize relevant institutions to conduct spot checks on the products of announced enterprises, and implement social supervision and dynamic management.

(II) If the announcement enterprise has any of the following circumstances, its announcement qualification will be revoked:

1. There is fraud in filling in the information;

2. Refuse to accept supervision and inspection or fail to meet the regulatory requirements after inspection;

3. The product fails to meet the standards in two consecutive spot checks;

4. Quality, production safety and pollution liability accidents occur;

5. Violation of laws, regulations and national industrial policies;

6. Other situations where the regulatory conditions and management requirements cannot be met.

Before revoking an enterprise’s announcement qualification, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will notify the relevant enterprises in advance and listen to their statements and defenses.

The application materials of enterprises whose announcement qualifications have been revoked will not be accepted within two years.

The standardized announcement list and relevant supervision and inspection situations will be announced to the public, and copied to the national investment, natural resources, ecological environment, emergency management, market supervision, financial supervision, energy and other departments.

(III) Relevant research institutions, testing institutions and industry organizations should assist the competent industry departments in the implementation and supervision and inspection of the conditions of this specification and organize enterprises to strengthen coordination and self-discipline management.

8. Supplementary Provisions

(I) This specification is applicable to lithium-ion batteries, positive electrode materials, negative electrode materials, diaphragms, and electrolyte manufacturers. Unless otherwise specified, lithium-ion batteries in this specification usually include single cells (cells) and battery packs (including battery modules and systems).

(II) If the standards and industry policies involved in this specification are revised, they shall be implemented in accordance with the revised version.

(III) Some process technical indicators covered by this specification that need to be updated due to rapid technological development will be issued in the form of revisions.

(IV) These standard conditions shall be implemented from XX/XX/2021, and shall be interpreted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and shall be revised in due course according to the development of the industry and the requirements of macro-control. The "Standard Conditions for the Lithium-ion Battery Industry (2018 Edition)" (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Announcement No. 5 of 2019) promulgated on January 25, 2019 shall be abolished at the same time.

Lithium-ion Battery Industry Standard Announcement Management Measures (2021 Edition) (Draft for Comments)

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 These Measures are formulated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Standardized Conditions for the Lithium-ion Battery Industry (2021 Edition)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Standardized Conditions") to strengthen the management of the lithium-ion battery industry, guide the industry to accelerate transformation and upgrading, and achieve high-quality development.

Article 2 The industrial and information technology authorities of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and cities with independent planning status, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (hereinafter referred to as provincial industry authorities) are responsible for the acceptance, verification and submission of announcement applications from lithium-ion battery industry enterprises in their respective regions, and for supervising and inspecting the implementation of regulatory conditions.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is responsible for the management of national lithium-ion battery industry standard announcements. It organizes the review, sampling, publicity and announcement of application materials reviewed and recommended by provincial industry regulatory authorities, and dynamically manages the list of lithium-ion battery industry standard announcements.