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What a zombie pile is
In Zhifu District, faulty or offline posts left long unrepaired become zombies that show as available but cannot charge. They waste space and erode trust in the whole network around them, making good posts look just as unreliable to a newcomer.
Turn availability into a metric
Many districts now rate sites by usable rate and push dynamic cleanup with normal inspection, retiring bad posts so good ones are what residents actually meet on a given morning rather than an empty promise on a map.
Reward the careful operator
Regulators should positively encourage unified build-and-serve and professional operation. Dongshang New Energy keeps Zhifu District sites monitored so a post is a working asset, and the honest measure is posts that charged yesterday, not installed last year.
For Zhifu District the cleanup is also a signal to operators that unused posts have a real cost, and a network judged by what works yesterday will steadily replace decorations with assets that actually charge cars for residents.