China News Service, Beijing, October 14 (Reporter Liu Yuying) According to the official WeChat of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, as of the end of June 2021, China has built 1.947 million charging piles of various types and 716 replacement power stations, which has become the world's largest scale A network of charging facilities.

  According to reports, China's electric vehicle charging infrastructure is developing rapidly.

As of the end of June 2021, 1.947 million charging piles of various types have been built, including 923,000 public charging piles, 1.024 million private charging piles, and 716 replacement power stations, forming the world's largest charging facility network.

  The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that overall, China's charging infrastructure basically supports the development of new energy vehicles, but it still needs to increase construction efforts, optimize the layout, and improve the level of development.

  The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that in the next step, it will cooperate with the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration to speed up the formulation and release of policy documents for improving the service capacity of charging and swapping infrastructure, focusing on solving the outstanding problems of the current charging infrastructure, and promoting the improvement of the charging infrastructure planning in rural areas. Layout to support the promotion and application of new energy vehicles in rural areas.

  New energy vehicles are increasingly favored by consumers.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments have organized the "New Energy Vehicles to the Countryside" event for two consecutive years. More than 20 companies including SAIC-GM-Wuling, Great Wall Motor, Chery Automobile, Hezhong Automobile, BAIC New Energy and other companies participated in the event with more than 60 models; State Grid Ten measures of “Two Guarantees and Two Promotions” were formulated, and pilot projects for serving new energy vehicles to the countryside were carried out in 28 prefectures and 81 districts and counties.

  It is understood that the sales of rural vehicles in the second half of 2020 are about 360,000, an increase of 80% year-on-year, which has made positive contributions to stabilizing and expanding automobile consumption and accelerating the recovery of the new energy automobile market.

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