The China Electric Vehicle Hundreds Association, composed of government personnel, experts, scholars and industry professionals in the field of electric vehicles, held its 2018 annual meeting on the 20th. At the meeting, Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang expressed support for the development of new energy vehicles.

According to data released by the 2018 China Electric Vehicle Association, in 2017, my country's production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 794000 and 777000 respectively, a year-on-year increase of 53.8 and 53.3, a record high. The contribution rate of new energy vehicles to the total automobile production in 2017 increased to 2.74. The China Automobile Association predicts that the domestic new energy vehicle market sales will exceed 1 million in 2018.

Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang said that the future of new energy vehicles is bound to be an intelligent, pure electric drive development direction.

Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang: Our requirements for power batteries may be higher density and safety. In terms of intelligent power systems, we must focus more (ground) on the most basic common key technologies such as algorithms and chips. aspect. Our hybrid power will also focus more (ground) on higher-efficiency hybrid power such as extended range.

In terms of policy support, Wan Gang said that in the future, it will improve policy innovation and maintain policy continuity. We will continue to expand the quota for electric vehicle market sales, speed up the popularization and promotion of public transportation and taxis, and at the same time, we will promptly introduce Wan Gang, minister of automatic science and technology: in terms of finance and taxation, while firmly withdrawing financial subsidies for electric vehicles in 2020, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Science and Technology have clearly extended preferential measures for vehicle purchase tax, while the automobile energy saving points system and the corresponding incentive system are also being completed, accelerating the carbon trading system, supporting business innovation models, and expanding the share of new energy vehicles all require policy efforts.