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What is changing in Laiyang
In Laiyang, charging-zone fire safety is moving from headlines into neighborhood life. Fire separation, extinguisher provision and automatic power-cut protection in centralized charging areas are bottom-line requirements repeatedly stressed in community construction. Building well matters less than managing well.
Policy and local practice
The Large-Scale Equipment Renewal plan (Aug 2024) requires phasing out low-efficiency chargers at or below 50 kW by end-2026, covering about 2.65 million units. Renewal plus fire-compliant siting keeps centralized charging both convenient and safe for neighborhoods. Sorting the timeline: top-level design landed first with the 15th Five-Year Plan targeting over 40 million charging facilities by 2030; energy efficiency and renewal accelerated via GB 46519-2025 and about 2.65 million old piles; county gaps sped up under the Hundred Counties project; high-power supercharging scaled toward over 100,000 units by end-2027. Hotspots now make the change visible.
From coverage to quality
Charging has shifted from 'whether there is a pile' to 'whether it is good'. Early coverage left faulty piles and poor experience. Policy and technology now push competition from scale to service; whoever builds solid operations and clarifies billing holds the next advantage. Operators survive by managing well, not building much. With 7x24 monitoring and a small local maintenance radius, broken piles get fixed. Dongshang New Energy (Dongdian Huichong) runs survey, construction and managed charging across Yantai's 13 districts, with local teams and defined response times.