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Counting wasted capital
The High-Tech Zone views zombie piles as stranded public investment. It weighs renewal cost against real demand, retiring faulty and non-compliant piles instead of leaving them to rust.
Market self-correction
About 2.65 million outdated chargers are scheduled for replacement under the equipment-upgrade push. Efficiency standards, product inspection and liability cover form three gates; unified construction and professional operation get positive incentives so good operators win.
Resident role
Use compliant sites with transparent billing, and report long-ignored faults to push dynamic retirement. In the High-Tech Zone, Dongdian Huichong (Dongshang New Energy) runs 24/7 smart monitoring with a local maintenance team, offering survey, construction and managed operation for communities and public sites.
For the High-Tech Zone, idle piles are stranded capital made visible. Scoring renewal against use and rewarding live sites keeps public investment working, and pushes the market toward operators who deliver uptime rather than those who merely claim coverage. The market then rewards exactly the behavior residents want.