After making it into the top ten in the country, Hunan aims to go even further.

According to Hunan Daily, on March 24, the Hunan provincial government held a working meeting with BYD Co., Ltd. in Changsha.

Mao Weiming, the deputy secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the governor of Hunan Province, said that he hopes BYD will further play the leading role in the industry, layout more high - end manufacturing, R & D and innovation sectors in Hunan. Relying on Hunan's industrial foundation and scientific and educational advantages, BYD should continuously expand its production capacity in Hunan, optimize the layout of the entire industrial chain, and guide more value - chain partners and innovation platforms to settle in Hunan, so as to help Hunan build a globally competitive new - energy vehicle industrial cluster.

Wang Chuanfu, the chairman and president of BYD, said that BYD will further increase its investment and layout in Hunan. It will apply more innovative products and technologies such as the second - generation blade battery and flash - charging technology in Hunan first, and build a "Flash - charging City" to jointly promote the high - quality development of the new - energy vehicle industry.

In recent years, the visibility of Hunan's new - energy vehicle industry has significantly increased nationwide.

In 2025, the automobile production in Hunan reached 1.626 million vehicles, a year - on - year increase of 30.7%, 20.3 percentage points higher than the national average. Among them, the revenue of the new - energy vehicle industry reached 322 billion yuan, and the production exceeded 1.1 million vehicles. The production ranked ninth in the country and second in the central region.

Among them, BYD contributed "half of the country". Data shows that in 2025, BYD's output value in Hunan reached 121.627 billion yuan, and the production of new - energy vehicles exceeded 550,000.

Moreover, BYD has formed a complete industrial chain layout of "passenger vehicles + commercial vehicles + power batteries + core components" in Hunan, with 7 major production bases, continuously leading the development of Hunan's new - energy vehicle industry.

Behind this, it is inseparable from the dual - wheel drive of the market and policies.

At the end of 2022, Hunan issued the "Several Policy Measures to Support the High - quality Development of the New - energy Vehicle Industry", clearly stating that it aims to build a new - energy vehicle industry high - ground with national influence.

In March 2023, Hunan held a special meeting on cultivating emerging industries, including the new - energy industry as one of the four emerging industries, with the industrial scale aiming at the trillion - level.

The 2024 Hunan provincial government work report further proposed that the new - energy industry should focus on the development of new - energy vehicles, new - energy equipment, and new - type energy storage, closely track the development trends of the hydrogen energy and solid - state power battery industries, promote the integration of the upstream and downstream of the new - energy industrial chain, and strive to gain new advantages in the new track.

Currently, Hunan has formed a complete industrial chain ecosystem from upstream materials, core components to vehicle manufacturing. It has gathered more than 10 new - energy vehicle manufacturers such as Changsha BYD, BAIC Zhuzhou, Xiangtan Geely, Changsha GAC Aion, and CRRC Electric, forming a pattern of simultaneous development of new - energy passenger vehicles, buses, and special vehicles.

However, it should be noted that the competition among regions in the new - energy track is still intense.

The latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that in the first two months of this year, the automobile production in Hunan was 160,500 vehicles, ranking 12th in the country, a significant drop compared with the 8th place in the same period last year and the 9th place for the whole year.

To build a "globally competitive new - energy vehicle industrial cluster", Hunan still needs to further "strengthen the chain and expand the cluster". When deploying the key work for this year in the 2026 Hunan provincial government work report, it was clearly mentioned that it is necessary to improve the scale and energy level of emerging industries such as new - energy, and promote the construction of industrial projects such as the new - generation lithium - battery project of Shengxing Technology in Ningxiang, Changsha, the new - energy electric drive system manufacturing project of CRRC in Zhuzhou, and the new - energy power and energy - storage project in Chenzhou.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Urban Evolution Theory", author: Liu Yanmei, published by 36Kr with authorization.