Zhengzhou: 170,000 new charging piles will be built from 2023 to 2025

Recently, the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government issued the "Zhengzhou Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Development Plan (2024-2035)", stating that the city needs to build 170,000 new charging facilities from 2023 to 2025, including 10,000 public charging facilities, 5,000 dedicated charging facilities, and 155,000 charging facilities for personal use in residential communities and centrally built and operated charging facilities; 20 new battery swap stations will be built.

The following is the original text:

Notice of the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government on Issuing the Zhengzhou Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Development Plan (2024-2035)

Zhengzheng [2024] No. 2

To the management committees of all development zones, the people's governments of all districts, counties (cities), all departments of the municipal people's government, and all relevant units:

The "Zhengzhou Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Development Plan (2024-2035)" is now issued to you. Please implement it conscientiously.

Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government
February 23, 2024

Zhengzhou Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Development Plan (2024-2035)

In order to fully implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on accelerating the construction of new infrastructure, accelerate the construction of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in our city, and support the construction of Zhengzhou as a national central city, this plan is formulated in accordance with the "Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Issuing the New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2021-2035)" (Guobanfa [2020] No. 39), the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments' "Implementation Opinions on Further Improving the Service Guarantee Capabilities of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure" (Fagai Nengyuangui [2022] No. 53) and the "Notice of the General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province on Issuing Several Policies for Accelerating the Construction of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in Henan Province" (Yu Zhengban [2020] No. 30) and other documents, combined with the actual situation of our city.

Chapter I General Provisions

1. Purpose of preparation

The charging infrastructure for new energy vehicles is an important part of the Party Central Committee and the State Council's efforts to accelerate the construction of new infrastructure. It is an important guarantee for implementing the national new energy strategy, helping to achieve the dual-carbon goals, and promoting the integrated development of new energy vehicles towards electrification, networking, intelligence, digitalization, and greening. The "Notice of the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government on Printing and Distributing the Overall Plan for the Development of Strategic Emerging Industries in Zhengzhou during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period (2021-2025)" (Zheng Zheng [2022] No. 10) clearly stated that it is necessary to accelerate the improvement of infrastructure construction such as charging and swapping, hydrogen refueling stations, promote business model innovation, and expand the scope of demonstration and application. Driven by the dual wheels of policy and economy, energy and environment, new energy vehicles in Zhengzhou will accelerate the realization of large-scale development, and higher requirements will be placed on the scale and layout of charging and swapping facilities.

II. Planning Scope and Duration

Planning scope: Zhengzhou main urban area, Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone and Shangjie District, Gongyi City, Xinzheng City, Dengfeng City, Xingyang City, Xinmi City, and Zhongmou County.

Planning period: short-term goal is 2025, long-term goal is 2035.

Chapter 2 Current Situation Analysis

1. Current Status of Charging Facilities

1. Promotion of new energy vehicles

By the end of 2022, Zhengzhou will have 5.33 million vehicles, of which about 256,000 are new energy vehicles, accounting for 4.8%. Compared with 6,000 new energy vehicles in 2015, the average annual growth rate is 70%. Among the new energy vehicles, there are about 6,700 urban buses (including 4,045 pure electric vehicles), about 11,800 cruising taxis, about 18,500 online ride-hailing vehicles, about 1,150 medium and large sanitation vehicles, about 1,570 electric concrete trucks, about 160 official cars, and about 210,000 private cars and other vehicles. Among the public vehicles, urban buses and cruising taxis are the fastest to be electrified, and the penetration rate of new energy vehicles has reached 100%.

(II) Construction of public charging and swapping networks

Zhengzhou has basically formed a charging and swapping service network with comprehensive layout and coordinated development of vehicles and piles. About 25,000 public and dedicated charging facilities have been built in the fields of commercial services, transportation hubs, public parking lots, logistics industrial parks, residential communities, scenic spots, and highway service areas. In terms of administrative regional distribution, 69% of charging facilities are distributed in the main urban area, and 31% of charging facilities are distributed in surrounding districts and counties (cities). Among them, Zhengdong New District (16%), Zhongyuan District (10%), and Erqi District (10%) rank the top three, concentrating 36% of the city's charging facilities. The total area of ​​the city is 7,567 square kilometers, the built-up area of ​​the urban area is 1,384.51 square kilometers, and the built-up area of ​​the central urban area is 774.32 square kilometers. The construction density of public charging facilities in the central urban area is 25/square kilometer, which basically meets the charging needs of new energy vehicles. In terms of the distribution of key places, 28 charging and swapping stations have been built in highway service areas, basically achieving full coverage of highway services; 72 dedicated charging stations for buses, about 2,500 charging facilities, and a car-to-pile ratio of 1.6:1, basically meeting the energy replenishment needs of 4,045 pure electric buses in Zhengzhou; there are about 18,000 parking spaces with installation conditions in party and government agencies and public institutions, and about 4,900 charging facilities have been built. About 350 special charging facilities are built for medium and large sanitation vehicles. The city has built 26 taxi swapping stations and private car swapping stations, covering the central urban area and Xingyang City, Xinmi City, Xinzheng City, and Zhongmou County.

(III) Construction of individual piles in residential areas

With the implementation of the "Notice of the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government on Printing and Distributing the Implementation Plan for the Renovation and Improvement of Old Residential Areas in Zhengzhou" (Zhengzhengwen [2019] No. 62), the planning and construction conditions of charging facilities in old residential areas have gradually improved. There are about 7,400 residential communities in the city, of which more than 4,500 have professional property service companies, accounting for 62%; there are about 2,800 residential communities that do not implement professional property services, accounting for 38%. By the end of 2022, there are about 19,000 residential communities with nearly 1,500 professional property service companies in the city, and about 12 charging facilities for personal use have been built, with an average of about 12 per community. Among them, 72% of the charging facilities are distributed in the main urban area, and 28% of the charging facilities are distributed in surrounding districts and counties (cities).

(IV) Policy system support

In order to accelerate the construction of charging infrastructure, Zhengzhou City issued and implemented a series of policy documents, including "Notice of the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government on Issuing the Zhengzhou City's 13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure" (Zhengzheng [2016] No. 34), "Notice of the General Office of the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government on Issuing the Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Construction of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in Zhengzhou (2017-2020)" (Zhengzhengban [2017] No. 65), "Notice of the General Office of the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government on Issuing the Implementation Measures for Accelerating the Construction of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in Zhengzhou" (Zhengzhengban [2016] No. 76), "Notice of the General Office of the Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government on Issuing the Implementation Rules for Subsidy Funds for the Construction of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in Zhengzhou" (Zhengzhengban [2017] No. 64), and "Zhengzhou City 2019-2020 Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Construction Implementation Plan", which clearly defined the goals and division of tasks for the construction of charging facilities, and jointly promoted them by industry and field to fully support the promotion and implementation of new energy vehicles in Zhengzhou.

2. Existing Problems

1. Difficulties in implementing the construction of public charging facilities

Encouraged by the provincial and municipal policies to support the construction of charging infrastructure, the enthusiasm of operating companies to build charging infrastructure has been continuously improved. However, the construction of centralized charging stations requires a certain amount of land. The land resources in the main urban area are tight and the ownership is complicated. Some facilities need to be renovated with electricity, which makes it difficult to implement charging infrastructure. There are more than 1,500 commercial parking lots in the city. Due to factors such as insufficient power capacity and high corporate investment, only about 230 parking lots have installed charging piles, accounting for 15%.