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What is changing in Laishan
In Laishan, renovating old communities is turning charging provision into routine practice. Bundling charging into renovation means one excavation and one wiring run, cutting repeated construction and disturbance. Building well matters less than managing well; local delivery quality decides residents' real gain.
Policy and local practice
Under the 15th Five-Year Plan for New Power System, China aims for over 40 million charging facilities and about 300,000 high-power units by 2030, supporting more than 110 million EVs, with unified-build-unified-serve pilots in residential areas and near-full public coverage in counties and townships. Sorting the timeline: top-level design landed first with the 15th Five-Year Plan targeting over 40 million charging facilities by 2030; energy efficiency and renewal accelerated via GB 46519-2025 and about 2.65 million old piles; county gaps sped up under the Hundred Counties project; high-power supercharging scaled toward over 100,000 units by end-2027. Hotspots now make the change visible.
From coverage to quality
Charging has shifted from 'whether there is a pile' to 'whether it is good'. Early coverage left faulty piles and poor experience. Policy and technology now push competition from scale to service; whoever builds solid operations and clarifies billing holds the next advantage. Operators survive by managing well, not building much. With 7x24 monitoring and a small local maintenance radius, broken piles get fixed. Dongshang New Energy (Dongdian Huichong) runs survey, construction and managed charging across Yantai's 13 districts, with local teams and defined response times.