April 11, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Transportation jointly issued "on the county charging and switching facilities to make up for the shortcomings of the pilot work of the notice", the document launched the "hundreds of counties, thousands of stations, ten thousand piles," the pilot project. In the country's 24 provinces to carry out the first batch of 70 pilot counties (see the annex for details of the number of provinces), and proposed: fully combined with the conditions of application of the region's scenarios, distributed photovoltaic coverage of rural areas, can be combined with the actual construction of photovoltaic power generation, storage, charging and switching of the integration of charging infrastructure.
The central financial authorities will arrange incentive funds to support pilot counties to carry out pilot work. The demonstration period for each pilot county is three years. The incentive standard is set according to the achievement of the power utilization rate of the charging and switching facilities in the pilot counties in each year, and is divided into three grades. During the demonstration period, the pilot county that achieves the highest target each year will receive up to 45 million yuan.
2. Support policies for pilot counties
(1) Local departments at all levels should actively introduce relevant policies in terms of land, tariffs, service fees, etc., to form policy synergies, effectively make up for the short board of public charging and switching infrastructure in rural areas, and strive to realize the charging and switching infrastructure "full coverage of townships and villages".
(2) Encourage the lease period of charging infrastructure stations to adopt a term of 10 years and above, reduce the risk of land use by operating enterprises, and guide enterprises to operate continuously in the long term. Encourage localities to introduce financial support policies such as construction and operation subsidies, land rent reductions and exemptions, and preferential electricity prices according to local conditions. Strengthen the quality and safety management of charging and switching infrastructure construction and installation, establish a system for investigating responsibility for accidents, and form a comprehensive charging and switching infrastructure support and management policy system.
(3) The incentive funds are mainly used for the construction and operation of charging and switching infrastructure in the pilot counties and other related expenditures, and shall not be used to balance the local financial resources, and shall not be used to subsidize the purchase of new energy vehicles and the operation of new energy vehicles. After the end of the pilot, the three departments will be over the target, and the neighboring areas have obvious demonstration effect of the county, in accordance with the incentive standard of 10% to give excess incentives. In accordance with the "first pre-funding, after the liquidation" approach, the three departments agreed to record the pilot counties centralized publicity. After the end of the publicity period, the central financial first allocated no less than 70% of incentive funds to support the pilot counties to start the county charging and switching facilities to make up for the shortcomings of the pilot work. Subsequently, the incentive funds will be liquidated according to the results of the annual target assessment of the pilot counties.
3. Requirements for pilot counties
(1) Pilot counties should have good basic conditions of rural power grids, charging and switching infrastructure construction and operation with sufficient power support guarantee capacity.
(2) The prefectural-level city where the pilot county is located should have no less than 200,000 vehicles in 2023, with good potential for consumption of new energy vehicles.
(3) The new charging and switching infrastructure in the pilot counties shall be open to the whole society, have an availability rate of not less than 99%, and have a rated power of more than 120 kilowatts (including 120 kilowatts).
The original document reads as follows
Notice of Pilot Work on County Charging and Switching Facilities to Make Up for Shortages
Caijian [2024] No. 57
Relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government Finance Department (Bureau), the competent department of industry and information technology, and the Department of Transportation (Bureau, Commission):
In order to implement the relevant decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, according to the spirit of the "CPC Central Committee and the State Council on learning to use the experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Rectification" project to effectively promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, accelerate to make up for the short boards of the public recharging and switching infrastructure in rural areas, and to further unleash the potential for consumption of new energy vehicles. In accordance with the "General Office of the State Council on the further construction of high-quality charging infrastructure system guidance" (State Council [2023] No. 19) requirements, 2024-2026, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Transportation (hereinafter referred to as the three departments) will carry out the pilot work of charging and switching facilities to fill the short board in the county. The relevant matters are notified as follows:
I. General requirements
From 2024 to 2026, in accordance with the principles of "planning first, scenario-driven, scientific and orderly, and adapting to local conditions", it will carry out the pilot project of "one hundred counties, one thousand stations and ten thousand piles", and strengthen the planning and construction of new energy vehicle charging and switching facilities in key villages and towns. Planning and construction. The central government will arrange incentive funds to support the pilot counties to carry out the pilot work. Provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, hereinafter collectively referred to as provinces) should give full play to the role of coordination and implementation of specific work. Local departments at all levels should actively introduce relevant policies in terms of land, electricity prices, service fees, etc., to form policy synergies, effectively make up for the shortcomings of the public charging and switching infrastructure in rural areas, and strive to realize the charging and switching infrastructure "full coverage of townships and villages".
II. Content and objectives of the pilot
(i) Enhancing the capacity of public charging and switching infrastructure services in rural areas. According to the needs of new energy vehicles in the region and in transit, increase the construction of public charging and switching infrastructure in rural areas suitable for the use of new energy vehicles. The new charging infrastructure in the pilot counties should be open to the whole society, with an availability rate of not less than 99% and a rated power of more than 120 kilowatts (including 120 kilowatts), and vigorously promote intelligent fast-charging public charging infrastructure. The key villages and towns in the pilot counties and the surrounding areas should create a "reasonable layout, rich scene, advanced technology, excellent experience" of the rural public charging and switching infrastructure construction and operation demonstration pilot area. Encourage the leading enterprises of charging and switching construction and operation in each region to join hands with local power grids, postal services, logistics and other large-scale enterprise groups to accelerate the construction of fast-charging public charging and switching infrastructure open to the public in rural areas where it is suitable for the use of new energy vehicles but there is insufficient willingness of the society to invest in the public charging and switching infrastructure, and strive for the gradual establishment of the market-oriented operation mode of the public charging and switching facilities in the rural areas, and constantly improve the quality of the public charging and switching infrastructure in the rural areas. Strive to gradually establish a market-oriented operation mode for public charging and switching facilities in rural areas, and continuously improve the public charging and switching service guarantee capacity of the "weak links" in rural areas.
(ii) Stimulating the consumption potential of new energy vehicles in pilot counties and surrounding areas. Focus on cultivating charging and switching application scenarios in line with the development characteristics of new energy vehicles in the local and surrounding areas, improving and upgrading the service guarantee capacity of suitable charging scenarios for new energy vehicles in county-level postal courier outlets, rural logistics nodes, rural passenger and freight transport stations (including township transport service stations, rural passenger and freight postal stations, etc.), tourist attractions at level 3A or below, rural highway routes, and transportation integrated service stations, and making good use of the service guarantee capacity of charging scenarios for new energy vehicles in the holidays and peak charging periods and highway service area charging. Do a good job of connecting the peak charging period with the channeling of charging in highway service areas. Pilot counties should work in the same direction with local new energy vehicle consumption promotion policies to form a new energy vehicle consumption pull effect and promote the willingness of local and neighboring areas to use new energy vehicles. Pilot counties that have the conditions should form a linkage with neighboring areas, and plan the layout of charging and switching infrastructure around tourism highways and "four good rural roads", etc., to promote "full coverage of cross-county scenarios" of charging and switching infrastructure, and to drive new energy vehicle consumption potential in the pilot counties and neighboring areas. Promote the consumption potential of new energy vehicles in the pilot counties and the surrounding areas.
(c) Actively cultivate the popularization and application of new technologies and modes in rural areas. Fully combining with the scenario application conditions in the region, actively exploring the application of new technologies and new modes such as vehicle network interaction (V2G), fast charging and switching, liquid-cooled high-power charging, intelligent and orderly charging, wireless charging, and other new technologies and new modes. In rural areas with good distributed photovoltaic coverage, charging infrastructure integrating photovoltaic power generation, energy storage and charging and switching can be built in conjunction with the actual construction of photovoltaic power generation, energy storage and charging and switching.
(d) Optimize and improve the charging and switching facilities support management policy system. Encourage localities to take into account the actual situation of their regions, introduce public charging and switching infrastructure construction support policies, safeguard charging and switching infrastructure and supporting grid construction land demand, accelerate the charging and switching infrastructure and supporting grid construction approval process, and broaden the charging and switching infrastructure investment and operation of enterprise financing channels. Encourage charging infrastructure station lease period of 10 years and above, reduce the risk of operating enterprises land, guide enterprises to long-term sustainable operation. Encourage localities to introduce financial support policies such as construction and operation subsidies, land rent reductions and exemptions, and preferential electricity prices according to local conditions. Strengthen the quality and safety management of charging and switching infrastructure construction and installation, establish a system for investigating responsibility for accidents, and form a comprehensive charging and switching infrastructure support and management policy system.
III. Selection of pilot counties
(a) Declare the main body. Declare the main body of the pilot shall be a new energy vehicle to promote the application of scenes rich, public charging and switching infrastructure construction is relatively weak, the local promotion and application of high enthusiasm, social capital investment willingness of the county (excluding municipal districts). Focus on mining application scenarios, the preparation of pilot declaration implementation program (see Annex 1 for the preparation outline).
(ii) Declaration conditions.
1. The degree of market-oriented development of charging and switching infrastructure is low. The degree of marketization of charging and switching infrastructure development in rural areas under the jurisdiction of the pilot counties should be low, the existing charging and switching infrastructure operation returns are poor, and the enthusiasm of social capital investment is weak.
2. A more complete planning and layout program. Pilot counties are located in the provincial and municipal levels have been formulated and issued public charging and switching infrastructure development plan. Pilot counties should develop a complete and reasonable charging and switching infrastructure planning program, clear public charging and switching facilities, regional line layout, the number of construction, annual plan, as well as work ideas, safeguards and division of responsibilities, and do a good job with the land and spatial planning, grid planning, rural construction and revitalization of planning, transportation planning, energy planning, etc., in close connection.
3. Scenes suitable for the consumption and use of new energy vehicles. Pilot counties should have rich demand for new energy vehicle charging and switching scenarios, covering county-level postal courier outlets, rural logistics nodes, rural passenger and freight stations (including township transportation service stations, rural passenger and freight postal stations, etc.), 3A and the following tourist attractions, along the "Four Good Rural Roads", transportation integrated service stations and other public charging and switching scenarios. Public charging and switching scenarios. In 2023, the number of automobiles in the prefecture-level cities where the pilot counties are located should not be less than 200,000, with good potential for consumption of new energy vehicles.
4. Adequate power supply guarantee capacity. Pilot counties should have good basic conditions of rural power grids, charging and switching infrastructure construction and operation with sufficient power support capacity.
(iii) Allocation of quotas. 2024-2026, the three departments will allocate quotas for pilot counties at the provincial level based on the current state of development of new energy vehicles and public charging and switching infrastructure at the local level and their future potential, geographic area, the number of counties (county-level municipalities) in the province, and the current state of financial resources (see Annex 2).
(d) Selection process. Pilot implementation program to the county as the main body of the preparation, level by level declaration to the province, the relevant provincial departments according to the county of new energy vehicle promotion potential, charging and switching demand and other factors, through competitive evaluation of the way to determine the list of pilot counties of the province on merit, and to encourage the province of remote areas and have the potential for the popularization and application of new energy vehicles in the counties, the "Four Good Rural Roads" National demonstration counties shall be appropriately tilted. The list of pilot counties in each province and the pilot implementation plan shall be reported to the three departments for the record in accordance with the procedures, and the electronic version of relevant materials shall be uploaded to the third-party "New Energy Vehicle Public Charging and Switching Infrastructure Incentive Funds Clearing Platform" (hereinafter referred to as the Clearing Platform).The deadline for the centralized acceptance of the pilot materials for the year of 2024 will be May 17, 2024.The pilot counties in each province shall be selected on the basis of competitive evaluation and assessment.
The three departments will carry out necessary reviews of the technical indicators, policy objectives, safeguard measures and application scenarios of the charging and switching infrastructure in the programs reported by the provinces, and return the programs to the provinces concerned if they do not meet the filing conditions. The province concerned shall revise the pilot counties and the reporting program according to the review opinions of the three departments, and report to the three departments according to the procedures within five working days; if it still fails to meet the filing conditions, the pilot quota of the current batch shall be reduced accordingly.
IV. Incentive criteria
The central financial to the three departments agreed to record and complete the task objectives of the pilot county to give incentives for financial support, each pilot county demonstration period of three years. Reward standards are set according to the annual pilot county power utilization rate of charging and switching facilities to meet the target, divided into three grades. During the demonstration period, the pilot counties that have reached the highest target each year will receive a maximum of 45 million yuan (see Annex 3 for specific annual assessment indicators and incentive standards).
The incentive funds are mainly used for the pilot county charging and switching infrastructure construction and operation and other related expenditures, and shall not be used to balance the local financial resources, and shall not be used to subsidize the purchase of new energy vehicles and new energy vehicle operation subsidies. After the end of the pilot, the three departments will give excess incentives to counties that have exceeded the target and have obvious demonstration and driving effects on the neighboring areas, in accordance with the 10% of the incentive standard.
V. Review and disbursement of funds
In accordance with the "first preallocation, after liquidation" approach, the three departments agreed to record the pilot county centralized publicity. After the end of the publicity period, the central financial first allocated not less than 70% incentive funds to support the pilot counties to start the county charging and switching facilities to make up for the shortcomings of the pilot work. Subsequently, the incentive funds will be liquidated according to the results of the annual target assessment of the pilot counties.
Before the end of February each year, the provincial lead department shall, in conjunction with relevant departments, organize and complete the audit of the demonstration situation of each pilot county in the previous year, specifically including the construction of charging and switching infrastructure, power utilization, application of new technologies and modes, as well as the accessibility of county rural roads to charging and switching sites, and upload the audit results to the clearing platform.
The three departments commissioned a third-party agency to organize experts to supervise and inspect the audit work and results of the relevant provinces in accordance with a certain ratio through material review and on-site spot checks, and to use the clearing platform to audit the completion of the objectives of the pilot counties in each province in accordance with the goal-led and result-oriented approach, and to issue a supervisory inspection report. The three departments determine the final audit results based on the supervision and inspection reports and provincial audit results. The Ministry of Finance disburses funds in accordance with procedures based on the final audit results.
VI. Organization and implementation
Provinces should clarify the lead department, actively play a coordinating and supervisory role, the relevant departments should increase policy support for the pilot counties, and encourage the introduction of land, tariffs, service fees and other supportive policies, to effectively guarantee the construction and operation of public charging and switching infrastructure in rural areas. Actively coordinate the local power grid enterprises in the pilot areas of grid access, capacity increase and other aspects to be guaranteed, to ensure that the pilot work to achieve practical results. Establish a regular reporting system for the pilot situation, the charging and switching infrastructure operation data should be uploaded to the clearing platform in real time; before the 15th of the first month of each quarter, the provincial lead department should organize the pilot counties to upload the penetration rate of new energy vehicles and the application of new technologies and modes on a quarterly basis in the clearing platform.
Pilot counties are responsible for formulating pilot implementation plans, improving supporting policies and organizing the implementation of pilot work. Pilot counties to strengthen the organization and implementation, the establishment of the lead department and other relevant departments to closely coordinate and cooperate with the work mechanism. Actively with a certain local construction scale, with mature construction experience of the leading enterprises to carry out cooperation in the construction and operation of charging and switching facilities. Pilot county lead department should work with the relevant departments to refine the division of labor, strengthen supervision and assessment, to create a favorable policy environment, co-ordinate the implementation of specific issues and difficulties, in order to ensure the safety of the basis for the completion of the pilot task. Pilot county finance and other relevant departments should ensure the timely and effective use of the incentive funds allocated by the central government.
VII. Supervision, evaluation and performance management
(i) Supervision and assessment. The three departments will strengthen the support, guidance and supervision of the pilot work of charging and switching facilities to make up for the shortcomings according to their functions, and organize third-party agencies and experts to follow up and guide the work throughout. The provincial level will strengthen the supervision and assessment of the pilot counties in the region, and will be responsible for the authenticity and accuracy of the materials submitted by the region.
(ii) Performance management. The relevant provinces will organize pilot counties to do a good job of performance target management, performance monitoring, annual performance self-assessment, etc., as required, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in conjunction with the Ministry of Transportation, will carry out an overall performance evaluation, and the three departments will combine the results of the overall performance evaluation of the pilot work nationwide and the results of the sub-provincial performance evaluation in 2024 to comprehensively determine the scope of the pilot provinces in 2025 as well as the allocation of pilot counties in each province.
The three departments, in conjunction with a third-party agency, will organize random checks and assessments in due course, and will take punitive measures such as deducting incentive funds, suspending the disbursement of funds, and cancelling the pilot qualification, in accordance with the procedures, in the event that the results of the random checks do not correspond to the situation as reported and in the case of other ineffective piloting work. No unit or individual shall retain, squeeze and misappropriate the incentive funds. For units and individuals violating national laws, administrative regulations and relevant provisions, the relevant departments shall stop and correct them in a timely manner, and deal with them in strict accordance with the Budget Law of the People's Republic of China and its implementing regulations, and Regulations on Punishments and Sanctions for Fiscal Violations, etc.; and if it constitutes a crime, it will be held criminally liable in accordance with the law. Finance, industry and information technology, transportation departments at all levels and their staff exist in violation of this notice, as well as other abuse of power, dereliction of duty, favoritism and other violations of law and discipline, in accordance with the "Budget Law of the People's Republic of China" and its implementing regulations, the "People's Republic of China Supervision Law", "Regulations on Penalties and Sanctions for Fiscal Violations," and other relevant provisions of the corresponding responsibility; constitutes a crime, the Criminal liability shall be investigated in accordance with the law.
Contact Information:
Economic Construction Division, Ministry of Finance 010-61965050
First Division of Equipment Industry, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology 010-68205644
Highway Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications 010-65292936
Ministry of Finance Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Ministry of Transportation
April 9, 2024
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