The "New Three Types" have become the "new engines" driving Shandong's foreign trade growth (see picture)
The picture shows customs officers inspecting power batteries for export vehicles, photographed by Liu Changzhi
On May 18th, in the battery intelligent manufacturing factory of Lihua Power Technology Co., Ltd. located in the Yellow Bohai New Area of Yantai, the automated production line is running at full speed. After precision processes such as capacity division, welding, and assembly, batches of lithium battery household storage products have completed final performance tests and are about to depart for overseas markets such as the Middle East and Southeast Asia under customs supervision.
The company is a new energy storage benchmark enterprise in Shandong Province that focuses on the research and development of lithium batteries. Its products cover areas such as automotive power, electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, intelligent robots, and energy storage systems.
The market demand for household energy storage and emergency power supply products in countries such as Pakistan and Nigeria continues to be strong. Our products precisely meet the overseas market demand and have successively won a large number of overseas intention orders. "Yang Jianlu, the manager of the planning and material control department of the company, said that the first phase of the" 46 series "large cylindrical battery project has been put into operation in September 2025, and the current production capacity is fully released. The second and third phases of the project are accelerating planning, and after all are completed, the production capacity will achieve a leapfrog growth.
Lithium batteries belong to Class 9 dangerous goods, and compliance procedures such as dangerous goods packaging and usage identification must be completed before export. In order to strengthen the export security defense line, Yantai Customs, a subsidiary of Qingdao Customs, actively provides front-line services, connects with enterprises in advance to grasp export plans, forms expert teams to provide on-site assistance, carefully interprets dangerous goods supervision regulations, packaging selection standards, and declaration process points, guides enterprises throughout the process to improve compliance management systems, and ensures safe and efficient customs clearance of products.
According to customs statistics, the export of lithium-ion batteries in Shandong Province reached 1.13 billion yuan in the first four months, a year-on-year increase of 35.2%. While the lithium battery industry is braving the wind and waves, the export momentum of new energy vehicles is also rapid. In the first four months, the export of new energy vehicles in Shandong Province reached 2.69 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.2%.
In the production workshop of Rizhao Hongri New Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd., the robotic arm operates accurately, the production line runs at high speed, and each process is seamlessly connected. The popular export models can be produced every two minutes and continuously sent to the global market.
As a gazelle enterprise and a specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprise in Shandong Province, the company has a complete four major processes for vehicle manufacturing, with an annual production capacity of 150000 vehicles, becoming the core production capacity support for the company's overseas expansion. At present, the company's complete vehicles and components have been exported to multiple countries and regions around the world, firmly ranking among the top exporters in the micro new energy vehicle industry, and continuously polishing the overseas brand name of Chinese new energy vehicles.
With the surge in overseas orders, enterprises are facing complex customs clearance and logistics challenges such as complex classification and declaration, high packaging standards, and tight booking pace. The original model is difficult to match the demand for "fast delivery".
Enterprises have expectations, and customs have actions. We have established a new energy enterprise package service mechanism, actively guiding enterprises to make use of convenient measures such as' advance declaration 'and' appointment inspection ', coordinating inspection forces, optimizing operation processes, and continuously reducing customs clearance time. Han Xiaobin, the head of the inspection department of Rizhao Customs under Qingdao Customs, said that the customs insists on providing end-to-end services, from policy preaching, customs clearance guidance to risk prevention and control, so that enterprises can research and develop with peace of mind and go abroad with peace of mind.
The industrial momentum is improving, and data witnesses vitality. Customs data shows that in the first four months of this year, the total import and export value of Shandong Province's foreign trade reached 1.17 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.6%; Among them, the export of "new three types" products reached 4.74 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 40.5%, becoming a strong new engine driving foreign trade growth. (Shi Yuchen, Zhong Yi, Wang Yifu/Text)