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Gotion Grid Q energy storage system displayed at a trade show

Gotion Battery: China’s LFP Challenger Beyond CATL Scale

The global battery conversation is too often reduced to a CATL-versus-everyone-else debate. That misses a more useful strategic question for executives: which Chinese battery companies can build credible scale, localized production, and chemistry advantage in markets where buyers want cost, safety, and supply diversification? Gotion belongs in that conversation now. In 2025, global EV battery

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Industrial battery recycling line inside a factory

Battery Recycling in China: Lithium, EVs and Circularity

China’s electric vehicle story has entered a new phase. After years of rapid production growth, the strategic question is shifting toward what happens to batteries after they leave the road. In 2025, China produced 16.626 million new energy vehicles and sold 16.49 million, with NEVs accounting for 47.9 percent of new car sales.  By 2030,

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Xiongan New Area waterfront skyline and urban development

Xiongan New Area: China’s Future City, Smart Infrastructure, and Innovation Experiment

In northern China, a new urban district is transforming expectations of what a city can be. The Xiongan New Area is being developed roughly 100 kilometers southwest of Beijing as part of a deliberate policy to disperse some non‑capital functions and promote coordinated development across the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region.  Starting in 2025, the area entered a

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Leapmotor B10 displayed at the IAA Mobility automotive exhibition

Leapmotor: China’s Affordable EV Challenger and Stellantis’s Global Bet

Leapmotor serves as a test of scale for China’s affordable EV playbook. The company has moved beyond startup visibility into a sharper phase built around cost control, smart features, faster overseas rollout, and global distribution through Stellantis. The brand’s Chinese name, 零跑, fits its current position. It signals speed and movement, but the business story

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Aerial view of ShanghaiTech University campus

Shanghai Tech Hub: Zhangjiang, AI Applications, Biotech, And Smart Mobility

Shanghai is entering 2026 with a sharper technology mandate. The Shanghai tech story now sits at the intersection of industrial upgrading, AI deployment, life sciences, and mobility infrastructure. The city’s three-year advanced manufacturing plan, released in January 2026, targets higher R&D intensity, more large-output manufacturers, and full digital intelligence coverage across large enterprises by 2027.

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Night skyline of Ningde city

Ningde Battery Hub: CATL, Energy Storage, and China’s New Energy Supply Chain

Walk into any serious discussion about lithium batteries or global energy storage today. The conversation lands in Ningde faster than you expect. This city in Fujian Province no longer plays a quiet second-tier role. It now commands the center of China’s new energy universe. Ningde, China, transformed from a coastal prefecture into the world’s most

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Automotive production line with robotic assembly systems

Robotic Assembly in China: Electronics, EVs, and High‑Speed Production Lines

China is rapidly automating its factories to maintain its global manufacturing edge. In the 15th Five‑Year Plan, embodied AI and humanoid robots are explicitly listed as strategic priorities.  Major industrial hubs are building robotic assembly line facilities that can produce cars every minute while operating in near darkness; Chongqing’s Chang’An digital factory uses over 2,000

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High-voltage transmission lines in a mountain landscape

China Renewable Energy: Green Tech, Solar, Wind, Storage, and the Clean‑Power Buildout

China’s embrace of renewable energy after 2025 has been nothing short of spectacular. China’s renewable energy rollout is redefining the global energy landscape and shifting the axis of power toward clean technology.  Government policies, massive investments, and cutting‑edge engineering have converged to transform China from a fossil-fuel-reliant economy into a world‑leading clean‑energy powerhouse. The Scale

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EFORT intelligent robot manufacturing facility

EFORT Robot: China’s Industrial Robotics Player for Welding and Automation

Industrial robotics now sits at the heart of China’s economic transformation. China’s 15th Five‑Year Plan (2026‑2030) places AI‑powered robots at the center of the country’s modern industrial system.  According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), China already operates roughly 2 million industrial robots, about 4.5 times the number deployed in second‑placed Japan, and accounts

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Automated battery cell production line inside a clean factory.

EV Batteries in China: Chemistry, Scale, and Supply Chains

Alt text: BYD’s Blade Battery Factory in Chongqing  China’s dominance in EV battery production is no longer a forecast. It is a fact of global industrial life. In 2025, Chinese manufacturers controlled around 70 percent of the global EV battery market, a sharp increase from less than 50 percent in 2021. The country’s battery cell

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