Daijiang news service, a journalist in the media, lee xianhui, reported that the charge of $0. 98 per kilowatt-hour in a small area of the city's billion-dollar luxurious city is higher than in the surrounding area; the charge of $1. 2 per kilowatt-hour in a small area of the city of nanchang, is about one times higher than the charge of $0. 62 per kilowatt-hour, and the residents simply stated that they “can't afford to charge the charge only to pull the line home” ... The public charge of electric bicycles, which had been introduced to break the fly-line charger charge, has increased the daily use burden on the population in part of my province. In recent days, journalists have carried out field visits to various residential neighbourhoods and have found that the cost of charging services in most of the districts is higher than the cost of basic electricity, and that the resulting livelihood and security problems are of concern。
Status: problem rebounded, charging facilities were not up to standard
The high cost of charging services both increases the burden of living for the population and contributes to the rebound of the “fly line charge”. Some residents risked charging their power lines to save money, and some operators, while increasing their service fees, compressed the fire-fighting inputs of the charging shed。
During the interview, journalists found problems of fire failure in several charging facilities: during the happy hour of nanchang city, where charger parking occupied the building's evacuation corridor, the august lake street office verified the situation and determined that re-location was necessary to build the recharge poles; the first-floor charge area of the kim fai building in jinhui county had long-term water accumulation, with equipment leaking and short-circuit fire at a high risk, and community-led maintenance was used to remove water stress. Various types of non-compliance-building and low-standard transportation issues make public charging facilities, which are supposed to be safe, new risk points。
Cause: cost overload and insufficient incentive for operators to reduce prices
At present, many of the recharge stakes in the sub-districts follow a third-party construction operation model, whereby the enterprise is required to bear the full cost of construction and maintenance independently, while paying entrance fees and operating shares to the sub-district property and industry committees, further increasing the operating costs。
The cost of the “small u-charging” pylinder service in the east library of the western lake of south chang city was 0. 98 kwh, and residents questioned the high rates. In response to a question from the public, the operator's head responded that the revenue from the service charges was used only for the construction and maintenance of hedge projects and that there was no excess profit。
At the same time, revenues and expenditures from the rental of charging stakes, shares, etc., are not included in the public revenues of the sub-regions and are publicized, and residents are not aware of the full cost composition and can easily challenge the rates。
Regulation: weak restraint, empty measurement white
According to national regulations, the charge for the charging of electric bicycles is subject to market adjustment. On 19 june 2025, the provincial development reform commission, the provincial market supervisory authority, the provincial housing and urban and rural construction department, and the provincial specialized unit for the management of the safeness of electric bicyclists, issued an initiative to promote a reduction in the charge of charging electric bicycles, while expressly stating that “the cost of charging services is not higher than the cost of charging electricity”, this provision is not mandatory and market regulation has no basis for penalties。
In addition, the lack of regulation for the measurement of chargers makes many charges difficult to trace. Residents of the dinhian chai district of nanchang county reported that electric bicycles used only 2. 2 kwh of electricity in real time, while the use of regional charging stakes showed 3 kwh. In response, the staff of the south chang district market supervisory authority responded to journalists that the current electric bicycle charging facility has not yet been included in the national directory of mandatory calibration meter management, with no specific calibration and calibration protocols. Questions about measurement by the population are difficult to prove effectively and to settle on the ground, which indirectly makes it difficult to correct and reduce unreasonable service costs。
Experts: take a step-by-step approach to explore the “overall” model
Journalists have learned that the eastern lake of south chang city has put in place a scheme for the management of electric bicycle charging in the east lake region, which specifies that “commercially operated charge points encourage operators to keep service charges within the electricity tariff rate (0. 62 kwh); services are significantly higher than the electricity fee rate and are strongly reflected by the population, with the regional markets regulatory authority leading the joint interview guidance of the relevant authorities to optimize pricing and return to reasonable areas”。
Wang qian, assistant researcher, institute of economics, faculty of social sciences, jiangxi province, suggested that the government should include the construction of charging facilities as a public-sector project by providing special construction subsidies to small areas with high investment in new sheds, ground hardening, etc., and reducing operating costs from sources. The “state-owned platform + unified operation” model could be explored, building on the operational experience of the “17 new installation” in zhejiangjiande and using municipal finance, territorial finance and co-financing, to be designed, standardized, adapted and unified by platform companies。
At the same time, wang zheng suggested that the market regulator should continue to carry out ad hoc inspections of the charging of charges, focusing on the implementation of the “separation of prices” and the strict detection of irregularities such as the blurring of prices, the non-conformity of prices and the “single price” harvest。
