Shanghai (ZXZC)- On March 4, Lei Jun, deputy of the National People's Congress and chairman of Chinese tech giant Xiaomi, released four proposals via his personal WeChat account for this year's two sessions, two of which are related to the new energy vehicle (NEV) sector.

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He said the low-carbon development of the NEV industry has been of vital importance to the global competition of the automotive industry, while a complete, clear and accurate carbon footprint accounting system has served as the premise and foundation on which the low-carbon development of NEV industry is based. Thus, it is urgent for China's auto industry to build and improve a system that is able to support the management, calculation, verification, and checking of carbon footprints, so as to help China's NEV industry achieve carbon neutrality.

Given such consideration, Lei Jun proposed building a carbon footprint management system, formulating the standards and methods for the accounting of carbon footprints along the full NEV industrial chain, establishing an industrial data platform for car footprints, as well as improving the carbon footprint-related verification, rating and incentive mechanisms.

The other proposal is about the construction of EV charging facilities. Currently, users' charging demands cannot be sufficiently satisfied as the fast charging facilities only account for 40% of China's total number of public EV charging piles, while they generally run at a relatively low power rate. To solve the problem, promoting the development of rapid charging facilities should be deemed as an important task for present days and near future.

Thus, he suggested that the government should strengthen the policy guidance to promote the coordinated deployment of high-power fast charging network. A national-level innovation cooperation platform should be built to step up the efforts to make breakthroughs in key technologies. Besides, he also advocated improving the service guarantee to popularize high-power charging infrastructures.