Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People's Bank of China, said March 6 that the central bank will restrict financing supply to industries with overcapacity. But Beijing's vow to reduce overcapacity could curtail investment in the electric vehicle battery industry, ANZ analysts said.
China's lithium material industry reached serious overcapacity in 2023 due to o verinvestment and repetitive construction of similar facilities, Chen Xuahua, chairman of Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. Ltd. and delegate to China's National People's Congress, said in an interview with state-backed Shanghai Securities News on March 4.
The average utilization rate of Chinese lithium-ion battery factories has dropped below 45% so far in 2024, and China's battery capacity will surge to nearly four times what the domestic market needs by 2027, according to ANZ.
In order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) predicts that by 2030, the global cumulative installed capacity of photovoltaics will exceed 5,400 gigawatts, which is about four times and nine times the global and Chinese cumulative installed capacity in 2023, respectively.
Electric machinery (including solar panels and battery manufacturing), automotives and chemicals (upstream suppliers) have been major investment drivers in the manufacturing sector in 2023. In 2024 the realisation of overcapacity could lead to a dramatic reversal in investment commitments.
The report highlighted a 30% increase in exports of electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic products last year. However, these measures are not enough to provide relief to the battery metal market.
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