- China to build over 40 million EV chargers by 2030, including 300,000 high‑power stations.
- Plan backs 110 million EVs with urban coverage, highway fast‑charging corridors, and rural deployment.
- Targets 300 GW energy storage and 50 GW V2G flexible capacity to stabilize renewables and grid load.
On Aug. 3, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and National Energy Administration (NEA) jointly released the 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a New Power System, outlining the country’s power sector development roadmap for the next five years.
One of the plan’s key targets for the new energy vehicle industry is to expand the country’s charging infrastructure to more than 40 million charging facilities by 2030.
This includes around 300,000 high-power charging stations, providing sufficient charging capacity to support more than 110 million electric vehicles.
The target implies that China’s charging infrastructure will roughly double from approximately 20.09 million facilities in 2025 over the next five years.
The plan also sets out the future development of the national charging network, calling for a three-dimensional layout consisting of comprehensive urban coverage, corridor-based highway networks, and point-based rural deployment.
Urban charging coverage will be further expanded, while intercity fast-charging corridors will be strengthened along expressways. Charging facilities at highway service areas will also be upgraded to better accommodate long-distance travel.
Meanwhile, public charging facilities will gradually achieve full coverage across rural counties and townships, with the exception of islands, high-altitude regions and areas with extremely cold climates.
On the technology front, the plan calls for increasing the proportion of fast chargers while steadily expanding high-power charging infrastructure to further reduce charging times.
For commercial vehicles, China will accelerate the deployment of high-power charging facilities for heavy-duty trucks along major freight corridors, supporting the electrification of the logistics sector.
Alongside charging infrastructure, the supporting capabilities of the country’s new power system will also be strengthened.
The plan targets the addition of approximately 160 GW of new energy storage capacity during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, bringing total nationwide new energy storage capacity to 300 GW by 2030.
Of the total, standalone grid-side energy storage is expected to reach 140 GW, while pumped-storage hydropower capacity will expand to around 160 GW, improving renewable energy integration and grid balancing capabilities.
The plan also emphasizes the development of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) integration.
By 2030, smart managed charging and bidirectional charging technologies are expected to achieve large-scale commercial deployment, while aggregated flexible charging capacity through vehicle-grid interaction is targeted to reach 50 GW.
China’s rapidly expanding EV fleet has continued to drive demand for charging infrastructure.
According to data from the Ministry of Public Security, the country had 476 million registered motor vehicles as of the end of June 2026, including 371 million automobiles.
New energy vehicle ownership reached 48.97 million units, accounting for 13.19% of the country’s total vehicle fleet, up 2.92 percentage points from a year earlier.
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