Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Guide lithium battery companies to reduce the number of projects that simply expand production capacity

On November 18, the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology publicly solicited opinions on the "Standard Conditions for the Lithium-ion Battery Industry (2021 Edition)" (Draft for Comments) and the "Management Measures for Standard Announcements of the Lithium-ion Battery Industry (2021 Edition)" (Draft for Comments).

Among them, the "Lithium-ion Battery Industry Standard Conditions (2021 Edition)" (Draft for Comments) proposes that lithium-ion battery companies and projects should comply with national laws and regulations on resource development and utilization, ecological and environmental protection, energy conservation management, and safe production, comply with national industrial policies and related industrial planning and layout requirements, comply with local land space planning and special ecological and environmental protection planning requirements, and meet the "three lines and one list" ecological and environmental zoning control requirements. Guide enterprises to reduce manufacturing projects that simply expand production capacity, strengthen technological innovation, improve product quality, and reduce production costs.

In terms of process technology and quality management, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology proposes that enterprises should meet the following conditions:

(1) The enterprise shall be legally registered and established in the territory of the People's Republic of China with independent legal person status; it shall have independent production, sales and service capabilities for products related to the lithium-ion battery industry; its R&D funds shall not be less than 3% of the enterprise's main business income in the current year; and enterprises are encouraged to obtain qualifications of independent R&D institutions, technology centers or high-tech enterprises at or above the provincial level; its main products shall have technical invention patents; and its actual output in the previous year at the time of application shall not be less than 50% of the actual production capacity in the current year.

(II) Enterprises should adopt production processes and equipment that are technologically advanced, energy-saving, environmentally friendly, safe, stable, and highly intelligent, and meet the following requirements: 1. Lithium-ion battery enterprises should have the ability to monitor the uniformity of electrode coating, and the measurement accuracy of electrode coating thickness and length should not be less than 2μm and 1mm respectively; they should have electrode drying process technology, and the water content control accuracy should not be less than 10ppm. 2. Lithium-ion battery enterprises should have the ability to control environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity and cleanliness during the injection process; they should have the ability to perform online detection of internal short-circuit high-voltage testing (HI-POT) after battery assembly. 3. Lithium-ion battery pack enterprises should have the ability to evaluate the consistency of single-cell open-circuit voltage, internal resistance, etc., with measurement accuracy of not less than 1mV and 1mΩ respectively; they should have the ability to detect the function of battery pack protection board online.

(III) Enterprises shall establish a quality management system, which shall at least include quality control processes, control procedures for preventing and detecting internal short circuit faults, test data and quality records, and control measures for cells or batteries that do not comply with the UN38.3 test. Enterprises are encouraged to obtain third-party certification, set up quality inspection departments, and equip them with full-time inspection personnel.

(IV) Enterprises should encode lithium-ion battery products and establish a full life cycle traceability system in accordance with relevant policies and standards, and enterprises are encouraged to apply active traceability technology.