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Laiyang: the National-Day travel surge story reaches the street
In Laiyang, National-Day travel surge is moving from headlines into daily life. During the October 1-5 holiday, 902,300 charging sessions ran through the XPeng platform, and on October 5 NIO completed over 183,600 battery swaps in a single day, a record high. For Laiyang, sinking chargers into markets, health centers and government halls fits real demand far better than isolated posts.
Plan charts the long view
The 15th Five-Year Plan for New Power System Construction, issued by the NDRC and NEA, calls for over 40 million charging points and about 300,000 high-power units by 2030, supporting more than 110 million EVs. It pushes an urban-area, highway-corridor and rural-point network, service-area upgrades and unified build-operate pilots in residential zones.
The sector's real contest has shifted from having chargers to making them good. Early land-grabbing fixed coverage but left broken, isolated piles; now policy and technology push competition from scale toward service. Whoever runs solid operations, open data and clear billing holds the next edge.
On the ground in Laiyang
For Laiyang, the team tailors plans to each site: older neighborhoods adopt unified build-operate, while new developments get high-standard pre-installed capacity, both compliant and durable. Dongdian Huichong (Dongshang New Energy) backs this with 7x24 monitoring and a local crew that fixes faults fast.