Three departments support the counties to fill the gap in charging facilities. This year plans to support 75 pilot counties.

On February 25th, the General Office of the Ministry of Finance, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the General Office of the Ministry of Transport issued a notice regarding the application for the pilot projects to supplement the inadequacies of county-level electric vehicle charging and swapping facilities by 2025. It mentioned the scientific determination of pilot quotas. The plan for 2025 is to support 75 pilot counties. The three departments will allocate provincial pilot county quotas based on factors such as the current status and future potential of new energy vehicles and public charging and swapping facilities in local areas, the geographical area, the number of counties (county-level cities) within the province, the current financial situation, the situation of the 2024 provincial pilot public charging and swapping facility access fund clearing platform, and the 2024 performance assessment results. It also mentioned that the central financial award funds are specifically used to support the pilot projects to supplement the inadequacies of county-level charging and swapping facilities. These funds should be used by local governments to support the construction, operation, distribution network transformation, and energy information management of public charging and swapping facilities in pilot counties. They should not be used for centralized public charging and swapping stations under national projects, specialized charging and swapping station construction, community public charging and swapping facilities sharing, or charging and swapping network construction and operation. Projects that have already received long-term special national bonds or central budget investment support for public charging and swapping facilities are not eligible to apply for this pilot award funding. The original text is as follows: Notice regarding the application for the pilot projects to supplement the inadequacies of county-level electric vehicle charging and swapping facilities by 2025 Financial Office No. 3 of 2025 Ministries, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government's finance departments (bureaus), the competent departments of industry and information technology, and transportation departments (bureaus, commissions): In order to accelerate the filling of the gaps in public electric vehicle charging and swapping facilities in rural areas and further unleash the potential of new energy vehicle consumption, in accordance with the joint notice of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Transport ("Notice on Carrying Out Pilot Projects to Supplement the Inadequacies of County-level Electric Vehicle Charging and Swapping Facilities", Financial Office No. 57 of 2024, hereinafter referred to as the "Pilot Notice"), the relevant work for 2025 is hereby notified. 1. Optimization of application conditions. Encourage two or more counties to jointly apply for pilot projects (hereinafter referred to as joint pilot counties) and collectively complete pilot tasks and assessments. Joint pilot counties occupy one pilot county quota, with one of the joint counties being the lead county, coordinating the pilot application and subsequent public charging and swapping facility construction, operation, and award fund distribution. Municipal districts with the necessary conditions can apply for joint pilot counties and coordinate with surrounding provinces, cities, and counties for scene collaboration. The number of registered vehicles in the city where the pilot county is located in 2024 should not be less than 250,000. 2. Scientific determination of pilot quotas. The plan for 2025 is to support 75 pilot counties. The three departments will allocate provincial pilot county quotas based on factors such as the current status and future potential of new energy vehicles and public charging and swapping facilities in local areas, the geographical area, the number of counties (county-level cities) within the province, the current financial situation, the situation of the 2024 provincial pilot public charging and swapping facility access fund clearing platform, and the 2024 performance assessment results (see Annex 1). 3. Encouragement of new technology applications. V2G projects with demonstrated exemplary effects in pilot areas (the total discharge power of V2G projects in pilot areas should not be less than 140 kilowatts in principle, and the total discharge amount during the pilot period should not be less than 14,000 kilowatt-hours) can be converted to standard charging posts based on the project's total power divided by 120 kilowatts (rounded down) by a factor of 3. The converted standard posts will be included in the first year to meet the policy requirements (reference for the first batch of 67 pilot counties approved in 2024). 4. Strengthening platform supervision. Public charging and swapping facilities in pilot counties should use a "direct connection" method to upload operating data in real-time to the clearing platform and encourage a "direct connection + interconnected" dual-channel transmission. Provinces can establish provincial-level public charging and swapping facility platforms (hereinafter referred to as provincial platforms) according to local conditions. The clearing platform is responsible for receiving direct data from public charging and swapping facilities transmitted by provincial platforms, and provincial platforms must ensure a "direct connection" with public charging and swapping facilities in pilot counties to ensure data authenticity and reliability. Provinces are responsible for the authenticity of data from public charging and swapping facilities in pilot counties, and they should increase monitoring and supervision through platform monitoring, on-site inspections, and other means. The three departments will organize third-party institutions to conduct spot checks on data from the clearing platform in a timely manner. If falsified data is discovered, the pilot county will lose its qualification, have excessive award funds reclaimed, and be listed on a dishonesty list as a punishment. The three departments will review the completion of pilot county tasks annually through document reviews, on-site spot checks, and the use of the clearing platform. Specific annual assessment indicators and reward standards are detailed in Annex 2. 5. Strict fund utilization. Central financial award funds are designated to support the pilot projects to supplement the inadequacies of county-level electric vehicle charging and swapping facilities. Local governments should use these funds to support the construction, operation, transformation of distribution networks, and related expenditures for public charging and swapping facilities in pilot counties. These funds should not be used for centralized public charging and swapping station construction under national projects, specialized charging and swapping station construction, community public charging and swapping facility sharing, or charging and swapping network construction and operation. Projects that have already received long-term special national bonds or central budget investment support for public charging and swapping facilities are not eligible to apply for this pilot award funding. 6. Other application requirements. Provinces should organize pilot counties to prepare implementation plans for pilot applications according to the requirements of the "Pilot Notice" (the text of the implementation plan should continue to follow Annex 1 of the "Pilot Notice", and the appendix of the implementation plan should follow Annex 3 of this notice). Further strengthen the connection between county-level electric vehicle charging and swapping facilities and rural road transportation infrastructure and related facilities, expand application scenarios, and coordinate the spatial layout of new public charging and swapping facilities with existing facilities to avoid duplicate construction and effectively increase utilization. Pilot counties can consider increasing electric heavy-duty truck charging and swapping facilities appropriately to support the rapid electrification of heavy-duty trucks. Provinces will determine the list of pilot counties through competitive review and submit the list of pilot counties and implementation plans for pilot projects to the three departments for the record by March 13, 2025, in accordance with the procedures.The sub-board is also uploaded to the settlement platform.Pilot counties should strictly follow the implementation plan to promote related pilot work. If, due to factors such as land acquisition, power transformation, or force majeure, it is impossible to implement the already filed implementation plan (including the first batch of pilot counties) completely, the construction scenes, construction sites, and other contents in the implementation plan can be structurally adjusted without reducing the total number of public charging facilities (standard piles) and the actual total power target, with the necessity and content of the adjustment being specifically explained by the county people's government. The adjustment application, along with the implementation plan adjustment application form (Appendix 4), should be submitted step by step to the relevant provincial departments (related materials should be uploaded synchronously to the settlement platform). The relevant provincial departments should issue clear opinions on the adjusted plan, and the adjustment application of the pilot county should be submitted to the three departments for filing and review. After the review is passed, the pilot county should implement it. This notice does not specify matters to be implemented according to the "Pilot Notice". Ministry of Finance Office, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Office, Ministry of Transport Office February 20, 2025 This article is selected from the Ministry of Finance, edited by GMTEight: Chen Wenfang.