[The 2026 World Power Battery Conference was held in Yibin today. In the first half of the year, the output value of Yibin power battery companies increased by 42.6% year-on-year] September 3rd, the 2026 World Power Battery Conference was held today in Yibin, Sichuan. This conference is hosted by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government and hosted by the Yibin Municipal People's Government, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, and the Equipment Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. With the theme of "Electric Drive for All Things, Integration and Symbiosis", the conference has become an important platform for in-depth docking of all parties in the global power battery industry. Under the guidance of the "double carbon" goal, Yibin's new energy industry is booming. In the first half of 2026, the output value of Yibin's power battery enterprises was 76.57 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 42.6%. It is expected that power battery output will reach 220GWh in 2026, and the output value of the entire industry chain will exceed 150 billion yuan. Yibin's power battery industry is led by CATL, which gathers more than 130 supporting projects such as positive and negative electrodes, structural parts, and separators, and has rapidly developed into the second 100-billion-dollar industry after the liquor industry.