On August 18, the Taizhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology released the "Taizhou 15th Five-Year Plan for New-Type Industrialization (Draft for Public Comment)". The plan outlines 26 key initiatives across eight major areas, including industrial structure, corporate innovation, digital intelligence levels, green low-carbon development, corporate strength, and regional industrial layout. The target is to see the city's total industrial invoiced sales exceed 1.2 trillion yuan by 2030.

The plan aims for the widespread adoption of green and low-carbon technologies and equipment, a significant improvement in energy and resource efficiency, and the initial establishment of an industrial system featuring green, low-carbon, and circular development. It also seeks to build Taizhou into an advanced manufacturing base with significant influence and competitiveness in the Yangtze River Delta region.

Focusing on a modern industrial system marked by the "Great Sea, New Dawn" initiative, the industrial structure will strengthen eight advantageous industrial clusters, prioritize the enhancement of 13 industrial chains, and accelerate the cultivation of several future industries. The following are the new energy-related industrial layouts within this framework.

Marine Engineering Equipment and High-Tech Ship Industry

For the marine engineering equipment industry chain, the plan accelerates the R&D of high-end products such as mooring chains and accessories for floating wind power, a new generation of high-diameter ultra-high-strength marine mooring chains, and high-strength mining chains.

New Energy Industry within Emerging Industries

This involves accelerating the high-quality development of the photovoltaic (PV) industry, enhancing photoelectric conversion efficiency and the long-term reliability of PV products, expanding the scale of high-efficiency crystalline silicon cells and modules, keeping pace with the commercialization of perovskite cells, and methodically deploying next-generation technology products. The plan also extends to the development of PV equipment such as intelligent inverters, controllers, combiner boxes, energy storage systems, single-crystal furnaces, and diffusion furnaces. Furthermore, it aggressively attracts and cultivates enterprises specializing in high-end equipment like coating machines, screen printing equipment, stacking machines, and formation & grading systems. Concurrently, the plan accelerates the R&D and application of high-performance batteries, including new-type lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and all-solid-state lithium batteries.

Future Industries in New-Type Energy Storage and Hydrogen Energy

In the new-type energy storage sector, the plan actively promotes innovative applications in grid-side, power-source-side, and user-side energy storage, as well as in new energy systems like distributed energy systems and microgrids. It also targets applications in transportation electrification, including electric vehicles and electric ships. The plan explores nurturing enterprises focused on emerging storage technologies such as sodium-ion, semi-solid-state, and all-solid-state batteries.

In the hydrogen energy sector, Taizhou will take the lead in developing "blue hydrogen" and explore technologies for solar PV electrolytic water hydrogen production and wind power electrolytic water hydrogen production. It actively develops various hydrogen storage methods, including high-pressure gaseous, liquid, and solid-state storage, along with transportation modes like hydrogen pipelines and vehicle-based transport. The plan promotes the diversified application of hydrogen energy in transportation, industry, and energy sectors, and supports the construction of infrastructure such as hydrogen refueling stations.

Industrial Layout Across Key Districts

The Taizhou Medical High-tech Zone (Gaogang District) will look ahead to plan future industry segments such as cutting-edge new materials, new-type energy storage, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). The Hailing District will focus on developing a provincial-level specialized industrial cluster for crystalline silicon PV, while also making forward-looking arrangements for future industries like new-type energy storage. The Jiangyan District will consolidate and upgrade its advantageous new energy industries. Jingjiang City will continue to enhance five emerging industries, including new energy and new materials, and will lay out plans for six future industries, including hydrogen energy and deep-sea technology.

Enterprise Cultivation and Green Development

The plan clearly emphasizes vigorously developing green manufacturing and comprehensively advancing green and low-carbon development. This involves adjusting and optimizing the energy structure and building a green manufacturing system. Measures include strengthening coal control by promoting clean and efficient coal utilization technologies and facilitating the substitution of clean and low-carbon energy for coal in non-power industries like building materials. The plan supports the active development of solar energy and biomass energy, the promotion of rooftop distributed PV on industrial enterprise buildings, and building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). It also explores the integrated development of distributed PV with energy storage and microgrids. To enhance electrification, the plan aims to expand the proportion of electric terminal-use equipment and encourages industrial enterprises to replace traditional energy-using processes with advanced electric processes. In creating green carriers, the plan aims to cultivate green parks, green factories, and green supply chain management enterprises to establish model benchmarks. For green product supply, it encourages the declaration of green products, increases the supply of equipment and products like wind power, energy-efficient motors, and new energy vehicles, and promotes the certification and rural distribution of green building materials. Finally, in renewable resource recycling, the plan seeks to cultivate standardized enterprises for the recovery and utilization of scrap steel, non-ferrous metals, waste plastics, waste PV modules, and waste power batteries.