HiTHIUM Surpasses 200 GWh in Cumulative Shipments, Accelerating Its Global Leadership in Long-Duration Energy Storage Through Full-Chain Integration
On October 15, 2026, HiTHIUM held its “Another 100 GWh Milestone, Built for the Long Run — HiTHIUM’s 200 GWh Shipment Milestone Ceremony” at Chongqing HiTHIUM. Having surpassed 100 GWh in shipments in August 2025, HiTHIUM reached the 200 GWh milestone just over a year later. This accelerated growth demonstrates the company’s advancing capabilities in large-scale manufacturing, full-chain coordination, and global delivery. The achievement also reflects strong market recognition of HiTHIUM’s integrated energy storage solutions designed for a wide range of applications.
Wang Pengcheng, Co-founder and President of HiTHIUM and Chairman of Chongqing HiTHIUM Energy Storage, attended the ceremony alongside Guo Licheng, Executive Deputy General Manager of Chongqing HiTHIUM Energy Storage, and other representatives.
Another 100 GWh: Doubling Shipments in Just Over a Year, Advancing Both Scale and Capability
Since commencing shipments at the end of 2021, HiTHIUM has built its business around three core competitive strengths: cost leadership, excellent service, and safety and reliability. The company has successively surpassed 100 GWh and 200 GWh in shipments, while steadily advancing its position in global industry rankings. HiTHIUM ranked fifth globally in 2023, rose to third in 2024, and reached the global Top 2 in both 2025 and the first half of 2026, demonstrating remarkable growth and setting a benchmark for high-quality development in the industry.
The company’s shipment milestones and rising industry rankings reflect its comprehensive strengths in focusing on long-duration energy storage, building full-chain integration capabilities, leveraging Lighthouse Factory manufacturing, and establishing a global delivery and service network. These achievements also demonstrate HiTHIUM’s efforts to develop new quality productive forces in energy storage and support the large-scale, high-quality development of China’s energy storage industry.
Government–Enterprise Collaboration: Building a New Energy Storage Hub in Western China
HiTHIUM’s rapid growth has been supported by the strong services and support provided by Tongliang District. Guided by the principles of responding promptly to business needs while minimizing unnecessary interference, Tongliang has improved administrative efficiency through initiatives such as the “Three Services” and “Four Liaison” programs, streamlined project procedures to enable construction to begin immediately after land acquisition and acceptance immediately upon project completion, and implemented policies that grant eligible benefits automatically without requiring applications. These measures have created a favorable environment for corporate investment, project construction, and production.
Tongliang has also promoted industrial investment and targeted services around HiTHIUM, encouraging the clustering of key materials, battery cell manufacturing, system integration, and other supply chain segments. This has gradually established a coordinated industrial ecosystem led by major enterprises and supported by upstream and downstream partners. By moving beyond support for an individual company to the development of an entire industrial chain, Tongliang has worked with HiTHIUM to expand production capacity, attract supporting enterprises, and foster the growth of the new energy storage industry.
Building on this foundation, Tongliang is aligning its development with Chongqing’s “33618” modern manufacturing cluster strategy. With new energy storage designated as a leading industry, the district is committed to supporting the growth of Chongqing HiTHIUM, coordinating efforts to facilitate railway transportation of lithium batteries and industrial talent development, and supporting the establishment of a Southwest China R&D center for new energy storage. These initiatives aim to accelerate the development of a major energy storage hub in western China.
Built for the Long Run: Strengthening Long-Term Competitiveness Through Innovation, Systems, and Responsibility
At the ceremony, Wang Pengcheng, Co-founder and President of HiTHIUM, stated that surpassing 200 GWh in shipments marks a new starting point for the company’s high-quality development and global expansion. Headquartered in Xiamen, with manufacturing bases in Chongqing and other locations, HiTHIUM is actively expanding into global markets. Through technology innovation, integrated development, and a deepening global footprint, the company is striving to become the world’s leading energy storage brand.
As a key strategic pillar of HiTHIUM’s operations, Chongqing HiTHIUM leverages the world’s first Lighthouse Factory dedicated to energy storage batteries to strengthen supply chain coordination and deliver high-quality products at scale. These capabilities support the upgrading of Chongqing’s energy storage industry and provide a solid foundation for HiTHIUM’s global expansion.
Looking ahead, Wang emphasized that competition in the energy storage industry is no longer limited to individual products. Instead, it increasingly depends on comprehensive capabilities across the entire value chain. HiTHIUM will continue to strengthen its competitiveness across three dimensions: innovation for the long term, systems for the long term, and responsibility for the long term.
Innovation for the Long Term
HiTHIUM will remain focused on the energy storage sector and committed to its long-duration energy storage strategy. The company aims to drive large-scale global deployment of its first integrated long-duration energy storage solution based on 1,000 Ah-class battery cells. By developing comprehensive solutions spanning battery cells to grid-level applications, HiTHIUM seeks to make “renewable energy + long-duration energy storage” a reliable cornerstone of the next-generation power system.
Systems for the Long Term
HiTHIUM will continue to implement its globalization strategy, guided by the principle that a strong domestic foundation ensures stability while global expansion drives competitiveness. With its Xiamen headquarters at the center and manufacturing bases such as Chongqing providing complementary capabilities, the company will deepen its overseas localization efforts and strengthen coordination across technology, products, intelligent manufacturing, supply chains, and delivery services. These efforts will enhance global resource allocation, large-scale manufacturing, and project delivery capabilities.
Responsibility for the Long Term
Committed to a long-term development philosophy, HiTHIUM will continue to expand its regional presence and localization efforts. By leveraging advanced manufacturing capacity to drive collaborative innovation across the industrial chain, the company aims to foster new technologies, advanced manufacturing, talent development, and a stronger industrial ecosystem. Through these efforts, HiTHIUM seeks to support regional renewable energy development and align its growth with broader national and regional strategic priorities.
Integrating into Tongliang: Lighthouse-Level Smart Manufacturing Strengthens Global Delivery Capabilities
The successful implementation of corporate strategy depends on a robust manufacturing system and a well-developed industrial supply chain. As a key strategic pillar of HiTHIUM’s integrated development and global expansion, Chongqing HiTHIUM continues to advance intelligent manufacturing, large-scale production, and supply chain coordination, providing strong support for the company’s growing global delivery capabilities.
During the project briefing session at the ceremony, Guo Licheng presented an overview of Chongqing HiTHIUM’s project development, Lighthouse Factory, and future development plans. His presentation highlighted the site’s progress in large-scale manufacturing, intelligent upgrading, and industrial chain coordination.
Partnering Across the Value Chain: Building a Collaborative Energy Storage Ecosystem
The milestone of 200 GWh represents not only a major achievement for HiTHIUM but also the collective support of its long-standing industry partners. During the event, HiTHIUM signed strategic cooperation agreements with Wanhua Chemical (Yantai) Battery Industry Co., Ltd., Hunan Yuneng New Energy Battery Material Co., Ltd., and Fujian Keda New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. These partnerships will further strengthen upstream and downstream collaboration and promote high-quality development across the long-duration energy storage value chain.
During the ceremony, Guo Licheng also represented HiTHIUM in donating a commemorative model of a long-duration energy storage system to the Tongliang District Planning Exhibition Hall in Chongqing. The donation marked an important milestone in HiTHIUM’s development in Tongliang and symbolized the company’s commitment to deepening its partnership with the local government and jointly advancing the new energy storage industry.
Another 100 GWh, Built for the Long Run: Entering a New Phase of Global Development
Looking back on HiTHIUM’s journey to surpass 200 GWh in shipments, the company’s progress reflects what Wang Pengcheng described as more than a change in growth rate over the past year. It represents the continued implementation and upgrading of integrated capabilities across technology innovation, advanced manufacturing, industrial collaboration, and global operations.
Looking ahead, HiTHIUM will continue to follow global trends in long-duration energy storage and implement the relevant objectives outlined in the Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces, including strengthening the new energy sector as a pillar industry, building a power system capable of accommodating a high proportion of renewable energy, and improving policies for renewable energy integration and dispatch.
The company will continue to strengthen its core capabilities, advance energy storage technology, upgrade its Lighthouse Factory manufacturing systems, and reinforce its global delivery network. By leveraging integrated energy storage solutions, HiTHIUM aims to reach its next 100 GWh shipment milestone, contribute to China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, and support the global transition toward cleaner energy.
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