An analysis of China’s power battery industry policy for new energy vehicles from a product life cycle perspective

Zihao Xu, Xiangyun Chang () and Ning Zhang
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Zihao Xu: East China University of Science and Technology
Xiangyun Chang: East China University of Science and Technology
Ning Zhang: East China University of Science and Technology

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2025, vol. 27, issue 6, No 30, 13093-13115

Abstract: Abstract The Chinese government attaches great importance to the power battery industry and has formulated a series of related policies. To conduct policy characteristics analysis, we analysed 188 policy texts on China’s power battery industry issued on a national level from 1999 to 2020. We adopted a product life cycle perspective that combined four dimensions: policy quantity, policy publishing department(s), policy content and policy tools. The results were as follows: (1) the Chinese government has gradually increased its focus on the power battery industry, concentrating on R&D and production in the early years and recycling in the later years; (2) cooperation among government departments has gradually intensified; (3) the policy content topics differed according to the product life cycle stage, and there were imprecision problems and breakpoints in the formulation of the policy content; (4) the government uses differentiated policy tools at each stage of the entire product life cycle, but the focus is generally on environment-side tools, while the use of demand-side policy tools is limited. Finally, several suggestions are proposed to improve current policies. This study can provide a theoretical reference for the improvement and revision of relevant industry policies.

Keywords: Power battery; Industry policy; Policy characteristics; Product life cycle; Text analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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