On September 16, the 11th Western China Investment presentation and Economic Cooperation Project signing ceremony was held in Chengdu. Leaders and well-known enterprises from the National Development and Reform Commission and 10 western provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government attended the event, and 11 representative projects were signed on the spot. Among them, Honeycomb Energy signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chengdu Municipal Government, which will spend 22 billion yuan to build a power battery manufacturing base and southwest R & D base with a total capacity of about 60GWh in Chengdu. Yang Hongxin, chairman and CEO of Honeycomb Energy, attended the signing ceremony.
Honeycomb Energy (Chengdu) power battery manufacturing and southwest R & D base project is located in the eastern new area of Chengdu, Jianzhou New City, covering an area of about 2500 mu, the project is planned to be built in three phases, each phase is about 20GWh power battery manufacturing and southwest R & D base, of which the first phase investment is about 10 billion yuan, and the proposed land area is about 767mu. This is the production base with the largest single investment and the highest capacity planning in Sichuan after the Suining 20GWh project, and plays a vital strategic role in the capacity layout of honeycomb energy. So far, Honeycomb Energy's new capacity planning for 2021 has reached 150GWhh, which is close to the overall 200GWh production capacity target of 2025.
At the signing ceremony, Yang Hongxin said:
Honeycomb Energy has always regarded the construction and development of the southwest market, especially the Sichuan base, as an important part of the global capacity layout. The site selection of Chengdu attaches importance to the three core advantages of Chengdu, that is, abundant factor security advantages, including resources, talents, and financial security advantages; followed by rich application scenarios, new energy vehicles are widely used locally and have a broad market; there are also perfect comprehensive supporting, policy dividends and perfect industrial layout. In the future, Honeycomb Energy will increase the construction of two major bases in Suining and Chengdu, Sichuan, actively absorb talents in the lithium power industry, and make positive contributions to the development of the local and even China's lithium power industry.
Wang Fengchao, deputy secretary of the Chengdu Municipal CPC Committee, mayor of the municipal government, and secretary of the leading party group in Chengdu, Sichuan Province
The strategic cooperation between Honeycomb Energy and Chengdu will inject strong innovative vitality into the development of Chengdu, lead the green and efficient development of Chengdu industry, increase the momentum of upstream and downstream industrial development, and promote the development of local economy in Chengdu. so as to promote the development of lithium power industry in Sichuan.
At present, the global new energy vehicle industry is in a golden period of rapid development. According to the data, the global sales of new energy passenger vehicles are expected to reach 18 million by 2025, and the global demand for power batteries will exceed 1TWh. Driven by high demand, power battery enterprises at home and abroad are vigorously expanding production. As a high-tech enterprise in the global power battery industry, Honeycomb Energy carries out capacity layout around the world at the honeycomb speed. In a short period of more than three years, production bases are all over the world, and European factories are invested overseas. Domestic distribution is concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta, South China, and Southwest China. In the first half of 2021 alone, it is located in Suining, Sichuan, and Huzhou, Zhejiang. Anhui Maanshan, Nanjing Lishui and other places have invested in the construction of production bases and intelligent chemical plants.
