Pollution prevention and flood prevention: new opportunities for lithium development

This year's national "two sessions" kicked off, and people's livelihood topics such as smog control and protection of environmental legislation became hot topics.

“Every year there is a period of time when our city is covered with haze. Every day we are forced to breathe the exhaust of the car. We live in the city for a glimpse of us. How do we expect the country to pay more attention to and pay attention to smog control and environmental protection?” March On the 3rd, a reporter interviewed a reporter on the streets of Zhengzhou.

Environmental Protection Creates New Opportunities for the Lithium Industry

Faced with the temptation of blue sky and white clouds, facing the hunger for clean air, the current 2000 version of the “Air Pollution Prevention Law” is about to be comprehensively revised, becoming the focus of the people’s livelihood amendment method in 2015. In addition, the new "Environmental Protection Law", known as "the strictest in history," was formally implemented, and the legal responsibility for environmental destruction was tightened. This will undoubtedly bring new development opportunities and challenges to the non-polluting lithium-ion battery, a representative product of the new energy industry.

The new "Environmental Protection Law" has for the first time written "Protection of public health" in Article 1 of the General Regulations and encourages the promotion of the use of clean new energy. The forthcoming amendments to the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law put forward many effective and practical measures in highlighting the source control, clarifying the control of total discharges and discharge permits, emphasizing scientific and technological governance, and also proposed to encourage and support the development and use of clean energy. . As a result, industry experts said that the prospects of the new energy industry represented by lithium in the future will be bright.

According to statistics, at present more than 10% of the country's arable land has been contaminated by heavy metals of varying degrees, with about 150 million acres. As of the end of 2013, nearly 50 million mu of arable land in China is not suitable for farming due to moderate-to-heavy pollution, of which lead-acid batteries used by various types of electric vehicles bear the brunt of pollution. According to the latest report from the "Economic Information Daily", the newly disclosed research results show that, as far as the city is concerned, the contribution rate of automobile exhaust and traffic dust to smog is as high as nearly 50%. Traffic emissions and the pollution of some heavy chemical companies have become the focus of haze control. Therefore, the development of pollution-free, non-emitting new energy lithium battery vehicles is just right.

Lithium Electric Development Can't "Go Upside Down"

Under the stimulation of many policies, in 2014, sales of new energy vehicles in China reached 75,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 3.2 times. Dong Yang, executive vice president and secretary-general of the China Automobile Association, stated that in 2015 China’s sales of new energy vehicles are expected to at least double again and will reach 150,000 to 200,000 vehicles. In the first half of 2014 alone, shipments of lithium-ion bicycles in China reached 1.7 million, an increase of 36% year-on-year. Liu Bin, general manager of Suzhou Longyue Lithium Moving Vehicle Co., Ltd., headquartered in Xinxiang City, Jinlong Precision Copper Pipe Group Co., Ltd., felt deeply concerned: “This year's lithium-ion bicycles have seen a significant increase in orders, with daily shipments exceeding that of previous years.” Now, Suzhou Longyue is gradually extending to the north on the basis of occupying the southern market and setting up more of its own marketing stores.

The increasingly prosperous lithium-electric vehicle market is driven by the rapid development of lithium-ion power battery and related materials industries. CCM, which specializes in market research, has released a forecast report, saying that with the rapid growth of sales of electric vehicles in China, the development of lithium-ion battery is entering the golden period. By 2017, the lithium-ion battery industry will increase to 400%. This point was also confirmed by Henan Lithium Power Co., Ltd., which is dedicated to the research and development of lithium-ion batteries. In 2014, the company’s annual battery output surged by 249 percent year-on-year, and its sales surged 411% year-on-year, making it profitable for the first time after years of losses. Seek capacity expansion to respond to the market.

Under the new "Environmental Protection Law" and "Air Pollution Prevention Law" and other countries to combat pollution, the "Shang Fang Bao Jian" under the opportunity to develop new energy power batteries for all to see. However, most of the domestic companies that develop lithium-ion battery and related materials are seeing profit margins in the lithium industry. Many provinces and cities also regard lithium-ion new energy as the pillar for future development, and there is a “one-and-for-one” situation. For this reason, Li Changjie, chairman of Jinlong Precision Copper Pipe Group Co., Ltd., suggested that low-level redundant construction led to fierce competition for low-end lithium batteries, and that high-quality, high-tech lithium batteries were in short supply. Under the new normal, enterprises must change their concepts to focus on the high-end market and focus on high-end new products so that the company can have a promising future. Otherwise, only fighting in the "Red Sea" of the low-end market, enterprises will eventually "scarred" and lose new momentum for innovation and development.