As the global new energy revolution enters a critical stage, the lithium battery industry is undergoing an epochal shift from “scale expansion” to “value restructuring.” Concurrently with the 2025 Starting Point Lithium Battery Annual Conference and the Lithium Battery Golden Tripod Awards Ceremony, the Starting Point Research 10th Anniversary Celebration and the User-Side Energy Storage & Battery Technology Forum gathered industry elites worldwide.
Mr. Wu Songyan, Founder, Group Chairman, and General Manager of YIXINFENG, took the stage as a special guest and delivered a keynote speech titled “Breaking Through Involution, Embracing a Digital-Intelligent Future – YIXINFENG’s Path of Innovation in Lithium Batteries.”With strategic foresight that penetrates cycles, hardcore innovation that redefines value, and a grand vision for global, he injected intellectual momentum into the industry’s development, winning high acclaim from global leaders and demonstrating the leading power of “Intelligent Manufacturing in China.”
With 25 years of deep cultivation in equipment manufacturing, Mr. Wu Songyan has long become an industry thinker possessing both technical depth and strategic height. Leading YIXINFENG, he has secured 196 national patents (including 49 invention patents) and holds multiple key industry positions, including as a member of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce’s High-End Intelligent Equipment Manufacturing Committee, consistently anchoring the direction of industrial upgrading at the forefront. In this speech, adopting the stance of an “industry co-builder,” he directly addressed the core contradictions facing the global lithium battery industry.
Currently, the global lithium battery industry is trapped in a structural dilemma of “coexisting overcapacity and value scarcity.” In 2024, China’s total planned lithium battery production capacity exceeded 3,000 GWh, while market demand was only about 1,200 GWh. The supply-demand imbalance triggered a “price war,” leading to a 5% year-on-year decline in industry gross margins. “Increased volume without increased profit” has become a common challenge worldwide. Confronting this challenge of the era, Wu Songyan’s concept of “value competition” became a beacon of thought for the industry to break the deadlock—replacing replaceable scale with irreplaceable technology, breaking path dependence through scenario innovation, and infusing the impetuous industry with the quiet strength of a “strengthening, not just scaling” long-termism.
YIXINFENG’s three pillars of hardcore innovation define the standards for next-generation lithium battery equipment. Addressing the flexible manufacturing needs of the low-altitude economy, the All-Laser Slitting Machine, with its advantages of “Three Zeros and Three No’s” (likely referring to zero contact, zero tool wear, etc., and no burrs, no dust, etc.), compressed new product development cycles from weeks to 3 days, breaking the physical limits of traditional manufacturing.
Facing the mass production bottleneck of 46-series large cylindrical batteries, the Laser Slitting and Winding Integrated Machine achieved leaps in seven major performance metrics, pushing cell yield rates to industry-leading levels.
The integrated small/medium pilot line safety space, with its modular design combined with the flexible model of “rentable, purchasable, contract manufacturing, and contract R&D,” lowered the initial investment threshold for global innovation teams by 70%, building an industrial ecosystem where “everyone can innovate.” This series of breakthroughs demonstrates the technological confidence and industrial responsibility of “Intelligent Manufacturing in China.”
In its globalization strategy, YIXINFENG is advancing to a new dimension of “global industrial collaborative co-construction.” Seizing the golden window period for equipment exports from 2025-2027, it has built a trinity system of “product compliance, local service, and model innovation”: obtaining international certifications like CE, UL, ATEX, with a test pass rate exceeding 98%; establishing technical service centers in Vietnam and Germany for localized response; innovating the “Line-as-a-Service” model, upgrading from “selling equipment” to “co-building an industrial ecosystem.” Its products and services now cover over 20 countries and regions, setting a benchmark for Chinese equipment export standards.
Digital-intelligent transformation is the underlying logic of YIXINFENG’s core competitiveness. Building a full-process digital-intelligent system integrating SAP, MES, and OA/IMD achieves end-to-end data penetration: SAP-ME closed-loop control reduced material loss rate from 5.2% to 2.7% and increased project gross margin by 3.1%; the MES + Digital Twin transparent factory shortened order delivery cycles by 15% and reduced customer penalties by 90%, setting a standard for digital-intelligent transformation in the global lithium battery equipment industry.
Standing at the crossroads of industrial transformation, YIXINFENG’s perseverance and future exemplify the mission of leading Chinese enterprises in this era. As a national-level “Little Giant” specialized and sophisticated SME (Specialized, Refined, Differential, and Innovative) and a National Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise, YIXINFENG consistently maintains an R&D investment ratio exceeding 6% of revenue, has established a postdoctoral workstation, and continuously strengthens its technological foundation through innovation. Upholding the core values of “Integrity, Responsibility, Care, Innovation, Pragmatism, and Win-Win,” it pursues the dual happiness (material and spiritual) of its employees while committing to the mission of promoting green energy globalization and fulfilling corporate social responsibility. Looking ahead, YIXINFENG focuses on three new tracks: the low-altitude economy, energy storage scenarios, and sodium-ion batteries. Driven by the dual engines of “technological rooting” and “scenario innovation,” it is dedicated to becoming a global leader in new energy equipment technology, joining hands with industry peers worldwide to jointly build an open, collaborative, and win-win global lithium battery industry ecosystem.
The reason Mr. Wu Songyan’s speech resonated so deeply within the industry lies not only in YIXINFENG’s hardcore innovative strength but also in its grand vision that transcends the enterprise itself, focuses on the overall industry landscape, and keeps global development at heart. As a representative of “Intelligent Manufacturing in China,” YIXINFENG is using digital-intelligent innovation as its pen and a global perspective as its ink, writing a magnificent chapter of “breaking through involution for rebirth and leading the future” on the grand scroll of the new energy revolution. In the future, YIXINFENG will continue to set sail with technology as its sail and innovation as its rudder, guiding the global lithium battery industry towards a new stage of higher quality and more sustainable development, contributing China’s strength to a green, low-carbon, and beautiful future for humanity.