Ministry of Industry and Information Technology responds to lower sales target for new energy power battery vehicles

A few days ago, the General Office of the State Council issued the 'New Energy Automobile Industry Development Plan (2021-2035)' (hereinafter referred to as the 'Plan'), which proposes that by 2025, the sales of new energy vehicles and new vehicles will reach 20% of the total sales of new vehicles. about. The above ratio is lower than that of the 'Draft for Comment' issued at the end of 2019 (the above-mentioned target is set at 25% in the Draft for Comment in 2019). In response to this issue, Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, gave an explanation at the State Council's regular policy briefing held on November 3. Xin Guobin said that the 20% target is mainly considered from two aspects. The first is to consider from the perspective of green development. The development of new energy vehicles is an important strategic measure to deal with climate change and promote green development. The development of this industry is a difficult goal to achieve. Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to encourage enterprises to have the enthusiasm for self-adjustment of structure, on the other hand, in terms of policies, it is still necessary to promote the automobile to work hard in this direction. The second is to consider from the practical perspective of industrial development. While comprehensively considering factors such as product supply capacity, consumer propensity to consume, and market demand space, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also extensively solicited opinions from all quarters, made in-depth calculations and analysis, and then proposed 20%. This guiding goal. 'At that time, when we asked for opinions publicly, we mentioned 25%. We hope to set a goal. Everyone can work hard and get it. This is beneficial to promoting the development of the industry. But now from the perspective of the entire industry-wide process of soliciting opinions, Many people think that setting this target to 25% is too high.' Xin Guobin said. According to data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China's new energy vehicle sales reached 138,000 in September, an increase of 26.2% month-on-month and 67.7% year-on-year, setting a new historical record for September. However, in terms of cumulative sales, the cumulative sales of China's new energy vehicle market in the first three quarters of 2020 was 677,000, a year-on-year decline of 17.7%.