The official ground breaking ceremony for Guangzhou headquarters project of Guangdong New Energy Circular Economy Zero-carbon Smart Industrial Park was recently held in Chini Industrial Park, Huadu District. The project, invested and constructed by Zhongheng Zhilian (Guangzhou) Energy Development Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Zhonghengyuan Group and Huadu Automobile City Development Co., Ltd., is a key construction project in Guangdong Province in 2025 and a key project of the new energy industry in Guangdong Province to strengthen and improve the chain. The project has received strong support from the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee.

Create a benchmark park of new energy circular economy

The project occupies a total net land area of about 10 acres, with a total building area of 131,000 square meters. The first phase of the project, with a total investment of 750 million yuan, is planned and designed according to the standards of a national zero-carbon park and green factory. It will build from scratch a 2GWh next-gen energy storage intelligent manufacturing center, a comprehensive utilization center with an annual processing capacity of 60,000 tons of retired power batteries, a recycling center with an annual processing capacity of 20,000 tons of retired photovoltaic panels, a carbon neutrality research institute, a scientific research center and an academician workstation.

The project has obtained the record filing certificate of enterprise investment projects in Guangdong Province, has completed the detailed survey of the site selected and the general layout design scheme. The land is now under the progress of “three supplies and one leveling” and its planning has been submitted for approval. It is expected to start production by June 2027.

Build a "three-chain integration" industrial ecosystem.

The core competitiveness of the project lies in building a three-in-one industrial ecosystem of "industry +, + carbon sink, and + intelligent computing". By conquering the three dominant positions of carbon sink accounting methodology, AI-powered industrial simulation and green regeneration of batteries, the project will provide the industry with replicable "zero-carbon solutions" and promote the leap of the new energy circular economy industry from extensive expansion to green intensive and high-quality development.

The project will achieve “leap at three levels" upon completion. Economic level: generate an annual output value exceeding 1.5 billion yuan, create, directly and indirectly 1,000+ jobs, and empower the new energy industry chain in the Greater Bay Area to reduce costs by 10%. Ecological level: reduce annual carbon emission by 1.03 million tons, equivalent to restoring forests on 12 Baiyun Mountains. Strategic level: provide no less than 40% of the recycled materials for power batteries in the Greater Bay Area by planning future layout of industrial clusters in the province, therefore consolidate the cornerstone of supply chain security.

The project will break the pain points of traditional industries through "three-chain integration". Technology chain: overcome the regeneration problem at material level with low-temperature solid-phase regeneration technology, reducing energy consumption by more than 40%, and increasing efficiency by more than 50%. Data chain: realize whole-process traceability and evidence storage of carbon footprint using quantum computing + blockchain. Value chain: reduce the comprehensive energy consumption of the park by more than 40% by using the smart energy management system. The goal is to promote the new energy industry in the Greater Bay Area from "single-point innovation" to "system-level closed-loop zero-carbon ecology".

Create a "Guangdong model" of resource cycling

With the "165 acres of guaranteed land + trillion-level automobile industry cluster", Huadu District has formed a unique magnetic point. The District government provides full-cycle support from green approval channels to R&D subsidies, and manages to achieve the benchmark speed of the Greater Bay Area where "contract signing means land acquisition, which in turn means start of construction".

"The project is by no means just an important investment project of Zhonghengyuan Group, it fills a key gap in the integrated application of recycling and carbon management technology at the backend of the new energy industry chain in South China and even the whole country.” According to Zeng Zhuangpeng, executive deputy director and secretary-general of the China Energy Research Society and chief consultant of the Strategic Development Committee of Zhonghengyuan Group, this project, as a concrete practice of Guangdong Province to implement the national "double carbon" strategy and promote the green transformation and upgrading of the industry, plays a role of demonstration and guidance and demonstrate industrial clustering effect. It marks a solid step of ours from mere "green energy production" to "green management throughout the life cycle", which will provide strong support for creating an internationally competitive green and low-carbon industrial cluster.

It is the hope of Chen Hanjun, vice president of Guangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, that the Institute can carry out in-depth cooperation with Zhonghengyuan and related enterprises in the park, giving full play to the advantages of universities in talent training, scientific research and innovation, and send to the park more professionals who understand technology, and are good at innovation and practice; meanwhile the Institute will also actively promote the cooperation between the school's scientific research team and the technical backbone of the enterprises to tackle key problems, especially in such key areas as zero-carbon R&D and battery recycling, so as to help the park become an innovation highland for new energy circular economy.

"The implementation of the project marks another major breakthrough of our province in the field of new energy circular economy. Integrating scientific and technological innovation, intelligent production and ecological cycle, this zero-carbon smart industrial park will surely become a demonstrative highland that will lead the transformation of the industry and a new benchmark for the high-quality development of the industry in the future." Liang Ming, secretary-general of Guangdong Provincial Enterprises Confederation and Guangdong Provincial Association of Entrepreneur, hopes that the park can be persistent in high-standard planning and high-level construction in creating a replicable and scalable "Guangdong model" for technological innovation, energy management, and resource recycling among others.

Help the achievement of "double carbon" goals and industrial upgrading.

Information shows that when completed and put into operation, the project will operate for four years in accordance with the Net Zero Carbon certification of TÜV Rheinland, striving to achieve "zero carbon emissions" by 2030 through technological innovation and accumulation.

Achieve zero carbon with the "triple zero system": Zero carbon design: build to the national standard for "three star green building" a supporting system of integrated photovoltaic building + sponge city, to achieve 100% renewable energy coverage; Zero-carbon operation: achieve self-circulation of energy through microgrids that integrates wind and solar power, energy storage, and hydrogen; Zero carbon production: realize full coverage of carbon capture process in all production lines for 100% cycling of industrial wastes.

The industrial park also plans an academician workstation and a carbon neutrality research institute; an industrial fund of no less than 1 billion yuan; favorable policy to attract innovative enterprises in the industry, which will offer "zero rent + technology sharing pool in the first three years"; and "Carbon Neutral Talent Program", which will be implemented to send in a targeted manner thousands of talents with master or doctoral degree, to form a closed-loop golden triangle of "technology, capital, and talent".

Yu Xinwei, member of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and chairman of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of RCCK, said that taking the foundation laying of this project as the starting point, they would give full play to the advantages of RCCK's extensive connections to facilitate the accurate matching of the think tank resources of RCCK and the scientific research power of universities in Guangzhou with the needs of industrial parks, and play a good role as a bridge and a tie in promoting the deep integration of industry, academia, research and application. Focusing on the difficulties and blockages that may fact the park in such areas as technological innovation, mode exploration, policy implementation, and talent introduction and training, RCCK would organize its members, experts and scholars to conduct in-depth research and actively make suggestions and proposals; and would strive for secure better development environment and policy support for, and provide intellectual support and pragmatic services to, the park.

Lin Weixiong, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Zhonghengyuan Group, remarked that the groundbreaking ceremony was not merely a beginning; it was a symbol of our commitment to the future, our pursuit of innovation, and our relentless search of excellence. Joint efforts would surely make this project another milestone in the development history of Zhonghengyuan Group and a model for the development of circular economy and new energy industry in Guangdong Province and even the whole country.