On July 18, the Conference on the Innovative Development of the New Energy Vehicle Industrial Chain was held in Zibo, Shandong Province. At the Conference, 14 special investment promotion projects for the new energy automobile industrial chain were signed with a total investment of 4.06 billion yuan. The 14 projects covered key areas such as intelligent connection and vehicle-mounted systems, as well as automobile bulk logistics and automobile leasing services. After the completion of the projects, Zibo will see the supply radius effectively shortened, the matching rates of industrial chains improved and its new energy automobile industrial cluster expanded.

As the leading district of Zibo's new energy automobile industrial chain, Zichuan District has planned and built a number of professional parks such as the Zibo Industrial Automation Industrial Zone, Seven-Star Green Intelligent Equipment Industrial Zone, Leopard Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Zone, and Yunshang Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Zone, building a new highland for the development of the new energy automobile industrial cluster. In the next step, Zibo will actively move toward the promising directions of the new energy automobile industry, take the new energy automobile and component industry as the "No.1 Project" in building a modern industrial system, coordinate and advance key works such as zone construction, and investment and talent attraction, accelerate the construction of a whole ecological industrial chain for automobiles, and combine forces to build a 100 billion-level industrial cluster.