New Horizons, New Ecosystems, New Opportunities | The 2025 World Power Battery Conference was held in Yibin, Sichuan

On November 12, the 2025 World Power Battery Conference opened in Yibin, Sichuan. The theme of this year's conference is "New Horizons, New Ecosystems, New Opportunities". It is hosted by the People's Government of Sichuan Province and co - organized by the People's Government of Yibin City, the Department of Economy and Information Technology of Sichuan Province, and the Equipment Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The conference includes one opening ceremony, one plenary session, six special sessions, as well as multiple exhibitions and project - signing activities.

This conference highlights scientific and technological innovation leadership, strengthening the power battery industry chain, and promoting the integrated development of related industries. It will further promote the sharing of opportunities, complementary advantages, and win - win cooperation, and contribute to the high - quality development of the global power battery industry.

Build Global Consensus and Open Up "New Horizons" for Industrial Development

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed to accelerate the development of strategic emerging industrial clusters such as new energy, new materials, aerospace, and low - altitude economy, drawing a blueprint and indicating the direction for the new - quality productive forces in the next five years. Meanwhile, new artificial intelligence technologies, new models of separating vehicles from batteries, and new business forms of integrating vehicles and energy have also brought new opportunities for the innovation of the power battery industry.

Currently, China's power battery industry has ranked first in the world in terms of scale for eight consecutive years. In recent years, some key technologies such as module - less battery packs and battery - chassis integration have achieved zero breakthroughs and entered market applications. In the first three quarters of this year, the sales volume of Chinese power batteries reached 786 GWh, and the export volume exceeded 129 GWh, with year - on - year growth rates of 48.9% and 32.75% respectively.

How to promote the high - quality development of the power battery industry? At the opening ceremony, participants discussed topics such as the development of the new energy industry, market trends, and industry standards, and contributed many strategic viewpoints that will guide the future of the industry.

Regarding the future development of the power battery industry, Wan Gang, the former vice - chairperson of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the president of the China Association for Science and Technology, gave suggestions from aspects such as strengthening the diversified innovation of power batteries, enhancing the application of intelligent technologies, promoting the innovative development of new models and business forms, improving the sustainable development ability of the industry, and deepening high - level international cooperation in power batteries.

Xin Guobin, the vice - minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in his speech that in the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will strengthen strategic guidance, draw a new development blueprint; expand application scenarios, build a new integrated ecosystem; improve the governance system, optimize the new industrial environment; adhere to open and win - win cooperation, expand new cooperation space, jointly create a new situation for high - quality industrial development, and make new and greater contributions to the global green energy transformation.

The trends of leading enterprises are always the vane of industry development.

"Facing the arduous task of global energy transformation and increasingly fierce competition, the industry should adhere to high - quality development and accelerate into the 'Quality Era'." On the same day, Zeng Yuqun, the chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Promoting the New Energy Industry to Accelerate into the 'Full - scale Increment Era'", sharing from four dimensions: technological breakthroughs to raise the upper limit of performance and quality; scenario expansion from "electric vehicles" to an "electric society"; model innovation to release new values of energy services; and building a zero - carbon ecosystem to create a second growth curve for the industry. Zeng Yuqun said bluntly that from high - speed to high - quality development and from partial breakthroughs to full - scale increments, the industry will enter a broader and more systematic growth era.

Regarding this "growth era", Jiang Yi, the secretary of the Party Leadership Group and the director of China Huadian Corporation, believes that new - type energy storage will play an important role. At the opening ceremony, he shared his views on the theme of "Promoting the High - quality Development of New - type Energy Storage to Assist the Green and Low - carbon Transformation of Energy and Power". He suggested strengthening scientific and technological innovation leadership, enhancing the research and development of key technologies such as long - duration energy storage, grid - forming energy storage, and hybrid energy storage, and promoting the large - scale and market - oriented application of new - type energy storage; improving policies and market mechanisms, further enhancing the application level of energy storage power stations, establishing a reasonable investment return mechanism for new - type energy storage, and giving full play to the multiple values of new - type energy storage; strengthening the full - chain safety protection of new - type energy storage systems and continuously improving the intrinsic safety level of energy storage.

At the opening ceremony, the major achievements of power batteries from 2020 to 2025 and the global power battery development outlook for 2030 were released. The achievements include "Innovation in Material Systems to Strengthen the Foundation of Electrification", "Progress in Battery Performance to Achieve Multi - dimensional Breakthroughs", "Innovation in System Structure to Unleash the Energy Potential of Batteries", "Empowering by Intelligent Manufacturing to Drive the Leap of Industrial Efficiency", and "Expansion of Application Boundaries to Open up Diverse Power Scenarios". The outlook includes "Material innovation will support the dual - evolution of power batteries towards high specific energy and high cost - performance, solid - liquid hybrid batteries will quickly move from small - batch applications to the market, all - solid - state batteries will achieve technological breakthroughs and industrial demonstration applications, the intelligence of power batteries will evolve towards the integration of internal and external systems, the R & D paradigm of power batteries will shift from 'trial - and - error testing' to 'intelligent design', AI will empower power battery manufacturing to move towards digitalization, intelligence, and flexibility, the recycling and reuse of power batteries will move from 'end - of - pipe treatment' to 'full - chain collaboration', and diversified scenarios will further expand the industrial ecological boundaries of power batteries".

Susanne Guth Orlowski, an advisor to the Global Battery Alliance, shared her views on "From Compliance to Cooperation: Building a New Global Ecosystem". In view of the current situation where global battery standards are still relatively isolated, she suggested unifying scattered standards into a globally unified and interconnected standard and hoped to establish a credible data system for the supply chain.

A relevant official from the People's Government of Sichuan Province said that the participants jointly looked forward to the good situation and broad prospects of the power battery industry, enhancing the confidence in further improving the industrial level, promoting high - quality development, and promoting high - level international cooperation. It also gave us more inspiration, thinking, and consensus on seizing opportunities, facing challenges, and seeking development together in the next step. It is believed that this conference will yield more rich and practical results.

Focus on Cutting - edge Technologies and Build a "New Ecosystem" for Industrial Applications

In addition to the opening ceremony, the 2025 World Power Battery Conference also features six special sessions. These sessions focus on hot industry topics such as global forward - looking technologies and innovation in power batteries, the construction of the power battery recycling system and industrial collaboration, enhancing the power battery industry through quality - driven strategies, the development of new - type energy storage industry, multi - scenario innovation applications of power batteries, and the high - quality development of the international logistics supply chain for power batteries. They will conduct in - depth discussions on industrial development from different perspectives and dimensions to explore new trends and directions.

Moreover, from November 12 to 15, the 2025 Power Battery Application Ecosystem Exhibition will be held at the Yibin International Convention and Exhibition Center. The exhibition focuses on the entire value chain of "Material Innovation - Intelligent Manufacturing - Scenario Reconstruction - Recycling", building an ecological closed - loop from the laboratory to commercialization, and providing a platform for the display, exchange, and cooperation of the global power battery industry chain to promote the integration of technological innovation resources and the co - construction of the ecosystem.

Building on the successful experience of the previous three exhibitions, this year's exhibition has innovated in professional exhibition areas, special displays, and concurrent activities. Both the exhibition area and the number of exhibitors have increased significantly. The total offline exhibition area is 50,000 square meters, and there are more than 230 participating enterprises and institutions. The exhibitors cover the entire industrial chain, including key power battery and industrial chain enterprises such as Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd., Libao New Materials, and the Academician Ouyang's Workstation; new energy vehicle enterprises such as Dongfeng Motor, Tesla, BYD, NIO, XPeng Motors, AITO, and Kaiyi Motors; enterprises in new application scenarios such as Neolix, Kusa, Zhuzhou Times New Material Technology Co., Ltd., Yibin CRRC Times Electric Co., Ltd., and DJI; as well as international enterprises from countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Singapore.

This exhibition has set up exhibition areas according to the segmented fields of the entire power battery industry chain and application scenarios, including the "14th Five - Year Plan" Achievements Exhibition (Preface Hall), the International Exhibition Area, the Power Battery and Materials Exhibition Area, the Energy Storage Exhibition Area, the New Energy Vehicle Exhibition Area, the Recycling and Material Regeneration Exhibition Area, the Electric Ship Technology Exhibition Area, the Power Battery Equipment Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition Area, the Yibin Artificial Intelligence Industry Ecosystem Exhibition Area, and the Low - altitude Economy Exhibition Area.

During the exhibition, a number of exciting activities will also be held simultaneously, including the "Charge the World with Youth" 2025 Power Battery Conference College Students' Main Performance, the 4th Yibin New Energy Vehicle Consumption Festival with the theme of "Smart Travel, Green Benefits", and the "Search for the Heart" Interactive Prize - Redemption Activity. It is hoped that through these interesting and educational interactive projects, participants can experience the charm of the power battery industry in an immersive way and enhance the social influence of the exhibition.

Cooperate for Win - win Results and Share "New Opportunities" in the Industrial Future

The World Power Battery Conference is committed to promoting international exchanges and cluster development in the global power battery and new energy vehicle industries. It has been successfully held in Yibin for three sessions, with more than 600 new technologies, products, and applications released and more than 200 major projects signed in total. It has become an important platform for deepening opening - up and promoting industrial cooperation. The conference not only helps Sichuan accelerate the construction of a trillion - level power battery industrial cluster but also makes important contributions to the development of the global power battery and new energy vehicle industries.

This year's conference has achieved fruitful results. A total of 180 projects were signed at this conference, covering key green new energy fields such as power batteries, new - type energy storage, photovoltaics, and the digital economy, demonstrating a strong industrial agglomeration effect and development momentum.

Sichuan is a major province in the power battery industry. In recent years, Sichuan has pooled its advantages in energy, industry, and talent, and the power battery industry has achieved leap - forward development from scratch, forming a complete industrial chain and cluster. In the first three quarters of this year, Sichuan's power battery output reached 168.1 GWh, a year - on - year increase of 49.2%, and it is expected to exceed 200 GWh for the whole year.

As the main carrier of the new energy vehicle and power battery (including energy storage) industrial chain in Sichuan Province, the output value of Yibin's power battery industry exceeded 100 billion yuan in both 2023 and 2024, becoming the second 100 - billion - level industry in Yibin after the liquor industry. As of now, Yibin has introduced more than 120 upstream and downstream supporting projects for power batteries, with a planned production capacity of 300 GWh and an existing production capacity of 210 GWh. It has built a green closed - loop full industrial chain for power batteries from basic raw materials to battery recycling, becoming one of the regions with the most complete power battery industrial chain and the strongest supporting capacity in China.

Riding on the wave of the conference, in the future, Yibin will continue to embrace an open attitude, promote the power battery industry to move towards a higher value - chain, and contribute wisdom and strength to the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.