Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Further expand automobile consumption and launch city-wide pilot program for comprehensive electrification of public sector vehicles.

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission jointly issued the “Notice on Consolidating the Upward Trend of Economic Recovery and Strengthening the Industrial Economy”.

Of relevance to the new energy automobile industry, the Notice proposes to further expand automotive consumption by:

  • Implementing the phased halving of purchase tax on passenger cars with 2.0 liter or below engine capacity;
  • Continuing preferential policies for the exemption of purchase tax on new energy vehicles;
  • Launching a pilot program for full-scale electrification of public vehicles in cities.

The Notice also proposes to further implement the special action plan for the development of advanced manufacturing industry clusters, focusing on key areas such as next-generation information technology, high-end equipment, new materials, and new energy, and promoting the upgrading of national-level clusters to world-class clusters.

Efforts will also be made to vigorously develop new industries, new formats, and new modes. The development of the digital economy will be accelerated to create an internationally competitive digital industry cluster. The intelligent manufacturing project will be fully implemented, pilot demonstrations of intelligent manufacturing will be launched, equipment digitalization will be accelerated, and a new batch of demonstration projects for service-oriented manufacturing will be selected and released to accelerate the transformation towards intelligence, greenness, and service-orientation.

In addition, the Notice also points out:

  • The role of the inter-ministerial coordination mechanism for the development of the new energy automobile industry will be fully utilized to break through key core technologies, build a new industrial ecology, improve infrastructure construction, and promote high-quality and sustainable development of the new energy automobile industry.

  • The development of the energy electronics industry will be accelerated, and innovation and application in intelligent photovoltaics will be promoted to improve the comprehensive standardization technology system of photovoltaic and lithium-ion batteries.

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