The total investment is about 10 billion yuan. BYD's \"blade battery\" will be trial production of its first production line before December 15 at the end of the year

Both Buildings 4 and 5 of the main production plants of BYD’s Ningxiang Power Battery Production Base Project have been capped. Photo by Wang Zhiwei, an all-media reporter of Changsha Evening News

Flagship medium and large sedan, ultra-safe \"blade battery\", more than 600 kilometers of cruising range, 100 kilometers acceleration of 3.9 seconds... Recently, BYD's new model \"Han\" has been popular in the car circle. In Ningxiang, Changsha, the BYD Ningxiang power battery production base project that will produce \"blade batteries\" for this model is also speeding up construction. At present, the No. 4 and No. 5 buildings of the main production plants have been capped. It is expected that the \"blade battery\" production line equipment will be installed before October 15 and the first production line will be trial production before December 15; next April, the project In the first phase, 4 \"blade battery\" production lines were put into full production.

Five or six hundred people are constructing at the same time

On the morning of August 17, the reporter came to BYD Ningxiang Industrial Park in Ningxiang High-tech Zone. At the scene, the workers sweated like rain. Some start the cutting machine \"tailor-made clothes\", some swing the hammer\"set nails\", the knocking sound nearby \"ping pong pong\", the conveying pipe in the distance \"buzzing\" Sounds and converges into an enduring symphony.

The reporter saw that two large buildings have been erected in the northwest and southeast corners of the project.

In the northwest corner of the site, the main production plants No. 4 and No. 5 have been capped, No. 4 has not yet removed the steel pipes, and No. 5 has begun preparations for the installation of external wall steel plates and internal equipment.

\"The two workshops are 4 floors, with a single floor of more than 18,000 square meters. The masonry, fire protection and steel structure outer wall and inner wall projects are in progress.\" According to Zheng Junjie, the project leader of BYD Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., the current construction site Five or six hundred people are rushing for construction at the same time, which will increase to more than 1,000 by the end of August.

At 10:30 in the morning, the construction site was already dazzling with sunlight and rolling heat waves. The workers successively finished construction and returned to the project department to rest. At the security gate, the construction party specially prepared herbal tea. It is understood that the wrong time construction system is implemented on the construction site, and the daily construction time is from 4 am to 10 am, and from 4 pm to 10 pm.

The reporter learned that since the project was settled in Ningxiang, it has received the \"zero distance\" cooperation of the Ningxiang High-tech Zone Management Committee: the 700,000 cubic meters of land leveling task was completed in 13 days, helping the project to enter the foundation construction more than 40 days in advance stage. At the same time, the park arranges special personnel to implement the whole process of project approval. Since the project was fully resumed in February this year, the park has also organized special vehicles to pick up workers from other places, and helped recruit workers in Ningxiang, ensuring that various constructions are carried out on schedule.

Zheng Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Ningxiang Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Ningxiang High-tech Zone, said that after the project is officially put into production, it will be the only upstream material in the Hunan Park to have \"upstream materials → lithium battery positive electrode, negative electrode, diaphragm, electrolyte, packaging auxiliary materials → battery cell →Lithium battery assembly and application →Recycling and reuse of waste batteries\"Ningxiang High-tech Zone, which has a complete industry chain and closed loop, will also have its own characteristic energy storage material industrial clusters.

The hardware and software of the automatic production line can be intelligently interconnected

In the southeast corner of the construction site, the exterior decoration of the two shift buildings has been completed, and the interior decoration and interior tidying are in progress; the complex building that will become the command center of the industrial park is about to be topped off, and the main body of the underground pool and pump house next to it has also been completed.

\"At the end of August, we will welcome a team of more than 1,000 construction workers and production workers. There are currently 2 shift buildings in place, with a total of 384 dormitories, each with air conditioning and 24-hour hot water, which can accommodate more than 1,600 people Employees. \"Zheng Junjie told reporters, \"The complex building that is about to be topped, the first floor is the canteen, the second floor is the recruitment training venue and supermarket, the third floor is the office floor, and the fourth floor will be equipped with guest houses in accordance with the standards of three-star hotels.\"

The southwest and northeast corners of the construction site are reserved sites for the second phase of the project.

As an important layout of BYD in the central region, BYD’s Ningxiang power battery production base has a total investment of about 10 billion yuan. It will build a strategic base for new energy vehicles in Central China, which mainly provides power batteries for BYD’s new energy vehicles. The first phase of the project plans to invest about 5 billion yuan. After completion, it is estimated that the annual sales income will be about 10 billion yuan, and the number of new jobs will be about 2,000.

BYD’s Ningxiang power battery project will use BYD’s world’s first sixth-generation power battery production line, which is composed of robots, MES information systems, intelligent logistics systems, and multi-functional unmanned vehicles to realize the automation and informatization of the production line. And it can intelligently interconnect the hardware and software of the fully automatic production line.

On March 29 this year, BYD officially released the\"blade battery\", quickly becoming a star product in the industry. The battery uses lithium iron phosphate technology and will first be mounted on the\"Han\" model. \"Blade battery\" through structural innovation, can skip \"modules\" when forming a group, greatly improving the volume utilization rate, and finally achieving the design goal of installing more batteries in the same space. Compared with the traditional battery pack, the volume utilization rate of the\"blade battery\" has increased by more than 50%, and its cruising range can be increased by more than 50%.

Today, BYD’s recruitment webpage has listed many jobs in Ningxiang, including technicians, quality control, and other categories, with a total of hundreds.

Dialogue project joint leader

What does BYD’s Ningxiang power battery project mean for the development of Changsha’s advanced energy storage material industry chain? How to promote the construction of related industry chains to a new level in the next step? The reporter interviewed Xia Jianping, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, as the leader of the project.

Question: What does this project mean for the development of Changsha's related industrial chain?

answer:The advanced energy storage materials industry is a subdivision industry in the field of new energy and new materials, and it is also an important support for the\"three wisdom and one core\" industry. On the basis of many leading companies in the lithium battery industry, such as Shanshan Energy, Bangpu Cycle, and Polyfluoride, the completion of BYD’s Ningxiang Power Battery Project will further amplify the agglomeration effect of the new lithium battery industry and promote the formation of a complete industrial chain Closed loop, to promote the advanced energy storage material industry chain in Changsha towards the goal of building a world-class industrial cluster.

Question: How will the construction of Changsha's advanced energy storage material industry chain be pushed to a new level in the next step?

answer:For some time to come, we will\"look at the world, face the whole country, and be based on the local\", take the advanced energy storage material industry chain as a pillar and strategic industry chain, and carry out appropriate guidance and key support to implement industrial cluster development, enterprise cultivation and growth, Leading by technological innovation, building a public service platform, and gathering talent pools are five major actions to promote chain reinforcement and chain extension. Strive to build Changsha into a leading domestic and internationally influential advanced energy storage material and power battery important base and industrial cluster by 2022. (Changsha Evening News/Liang Ruiping and Li Guangjun)