China · 2026-09-28
China publishes its first national five-year plan for the new-type battery industry
China’s MIIT and six other departments released the 2026–2030 plan for lithium, sodium, flow and other new-type batteries. It sets 19 priority tasks across innovation, industrial upgrading, industry-system development, technology services, and trade and investment. By 2030 it targets initial large-scale application of all-solid-state batteries, 15,000-cycle long-life lithium batteries and parts-per-billion defect rates at leading manufacturers, while strengthening safety, recycling, standards, testing, traceability, carbon-footprint management and international cooperation.
What it means
This is an industrial strategy, not a new mandatory product-certification rule. Buyers and exporters should treat its numerical goals as national development targets rather than guaranteed specifications for any product. The practical signal is stronger future scrutiny of product quality, capacity expansion, price competition, safety and transport, plus greater emphasis on recognised standards, testing and certification, lifecycle traceability, recycling, carbon data and orderly overseas investment.
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