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What is changing in Development Zone
In Development Zone, responsibility division is moving from headlines into neighborhood life. The safety responsibility boundary among property, owners and operators is the most common dispute; written agreements on inspection, repair and accidents are now a necessary pre-step. Building well matters less than managing well.
Policy and local practice
The Large-Scale Equipment Renewal plan (Aug 2024) requires phasing out low-efficiency chargers at or below 50 kW by end-2026, covering about 2.65 million units. Clear responsibility paired with renewal turns 'usable' piles into 'good' ones with accountable upkeep. 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.