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Yishui: the Shandong county pilot story reaches the street
In Yishui, Shandong county pilot is moving from headlines into daily life. Shandong's Tai'an Taishan district and Binzhou Boxing county joined the 2026 national county charging pilot; Binzhou now runs 10,521 public and dedicated piles with full county and township coverage. For Yishui, sinking chargers into markets, health centers and government halls fits real demand far better than isolated posts.
Plan charts the long view
The 15th Five-Year Plan for New Power System Construction, issued by the NDRC and NEA, calls for over 40 million charging points and about 300,000 high-power units by 2030, supporting more than 110 million EVs. It pushes an urban-area, highway-corridor and rural-point network, service-area upgrades and unified build-operate pilots in residential zones.
For counties and towns, charging is not a downgraded copy of the city but a fit to local travel. Markets, clinics and government halls are natural stops; green power and self-use accounting let town sites cut cost while approaching dual-carbon goals. Local fit avoids piles that just sit in the sun.
On the ground in Yishui
In Yishui, residents fold charging into market days and visits to relatives, while the operator keeps the maintenance radius small so broken piles get fixed. Dongdian Huichong (Dongshang New Energy) brings 7x24 monitoring and local staffing, proving that sinking chargers into the neighborhood is the real last mile.