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Not More, but Right
Public chargers are not better by count; placement is what counts. Smart finding and navigation are standard for quality service under the 2023 State Council guidance through 2030, not just a pile on every lonely corner of town.
Rizhao in Practice
Compliant public clusters rise around malls, hospitals and markets, making on-the-way top-ups real. Piles sit at natural stops for higher use; public points move from having to usable for the people who live and work nearby.
Practical Advice
Merchants use on-site charging as a perk; residents pick maintained transparent sites; operators publish status to cut dead piles and put public piles under unified monitoring that keeps them working reliably for the whole street.
Placement is a form of respect for residents' time, and a pile beside the clinic is worth three beside a fence, because it meets people where their day has already decided to take them anyway, without a forced detour across the town to somewhere else.