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China Implements Strictest Battery Recycling Regulations, Marking the Dawn of a Legalized and Platform-Driven Era for Power Battery Lifecycle Management

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2026-02-02

China Implements Strictest Battery Recycling Regulations, Marking the Dawn of a Legalized and Platform-Driven Era for Power Battery Lifecycle Management

Core Summary
On April 1, 2026, the "Management Measures for the Recycling and Comprehensive Utilization of Waste Power Batteries from New Energy Vehicles" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), jointly formulated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and other ministries, officially came into effect. As the first comprehensive departmental regulation in China's power battery recycling sector, the core of these "Measures" is the establishment of a unified, full-lifecycle traceability management platform. They impose mandatory management requirements on all stages of a battery's life—production, sale, use, retirement, recycling, cascade utilization, and regeneration—aiming to build a standardized, efficient, and green recycling system to systematically address the impending large-scale wave of retired power batteries.

Interpretation of the New Regulation's Core Points
The introduction of the "Measures" signifies that China's power battery recycling industry has formally transitioned from a past emphasis on "encouragement and guidance" to a new stage of "mandatory standardization and full-process traceability." Its core requirements are reflected in:

Mandatory Full-Process Traceability: Battery manufacturers, automobile manufacturers, end-of-life vehicle recycling and dismantling enterprises, cascade utilization enterprises, and regeneration enterprises are required to accurately record and report the flow information of batteries at each stage through the national unified traceability management platform, achieving "traceable origin, trackable destination, controllable nodes, and accountable responsibility."
Clarification of Primary Responsibilities: For the first time, regulations systematically delineate and reinforce the recycling and utilization responsibilities of participants across the industrial chain. Notably, they strengthen the primary recycling responsibility of automobile manufacturers and the design-for-recycling responsibility of battery manufacturers, constructing a responsibility closed loop from "cradle" to "renewal."
Standardization of Recycling Channels and Treatment: The standards for establishing recycling service networks are strictly regulated, unqualified enterprises are prohibited from illegal dismantling, and safety and performance standards for cascade utilization products (e.g., for energy storage, backup power) are clarified, along with environmental and resource recovery rate requirements for regeneration.

Industry Impact and Profound Significance
The implementation of these regulations, hailed as the "strictest," will profoundly reshape the end-of-life ecosystem and value cycle of China's and even the global battery industry chain:

Raising Industry Entry Barriers and Accelerating Survival of the Fittest: Standardized, platform-based management will thoroughly eliminate illegal "workshop-style" recycling and polluting treatment. The market share of compliant leading enterprises with strong technological and capital capabilities will increase significantly.
Driving Upstream Design Changes in the Industrial Chain: To meet requirements for easy recycling, dismantling, and traceability, technologies such as standardized battery design, Design for Disassembly (DfD), and Battery Passport will become prerequisites in product development, enhancing resource circulation efficiency from the source.
Safeguarding Key Strategic Resource Security: Establishing a legal and transparent recycling network will significantly enhance domestic circular security capabilities for critical metals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel, reduce external dependence, and support national new energy industry and supply chain security strategies.
Setting a Global Benchmark for Battery Governance: As the world's largest market for new energy vehicles and power batteries, China's implementation of this systematic regulation provides an important "Chinese solution" for the global challenge of battery retirement, potentially influencing policy formulation in other regions.

As a responsible participant across the entire industrial chain, we have integrated green battery design and circular regeneration into our core strategy. We fully support and are actively preparing to meet the requirements of the new regulations. We are committed to providing customers with battery products and recycling solutions that meet full lifecycle environmental requirements through technological innovation and collaboration, jointly promoting the true sustainable development of the new energy industry.