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Since the second half of 2018, hundreds of electric vehicle safety accidents have occurred all over the country, mostly due to the power battery. The quality problems of power battery continue to affect the consumer confidence. This time, the government will be serious about the quality problem! On November 27, the Ministry of industry and information technology released information on its website, and interviewed Jiangsu Zhihang new energy Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Zhihang new energy") about the quality and safety of new energy vehicle power battery products. It asked the enterprise to immediately carry out self inspection and rectification on the sold products, put forward solutions to the product quality problems one by one, and systemically sort out the links of R & D, production, testing and after-sales And rectification and optimization. What is the origin of new energy of Zhihang? According to the data, the company was founded in July 2012, located in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. It is an enterprise integrating R & D, production, sales and service of power lithium battery positive materials, lithium batteries, battery packs and other products. From the perspective of equity structure, the shareholder behind Zhihang new energy is a listed A-share company named * ST youf (the former youf shares). From November 2016 to December 2017, * ST youf achieved a wholly-owned holding of Zhihang new energy through two acquisitions. In June this year, the equipment industry development center of the Ministry of industry and information technology issued the notice on the investigation of potential safety hazards of new energy vehicles (hereinafter referred to as the notice), requiring all new energy vehicle manufacturers to complete the investigation of potential safety hazards of new energy vehicles by the end of October 2019, and regarding the enterprises found to have problems such as failure to carry out the investigation as required, false report, fraud, etc The nature and severity of the problem will be punished by means of public notification, ordering correction within a time limit, suspending or canceling the announcement of enterprises and products, and eliminating from the promotion and application of new energy vehicles. It is understood that in addition to requiring enterprises to conduct self inspection, the Ministry of industry and information technology, together with relevant units, has continued to pay attention to safety accidents such as fire and combustion of new energy vehicles, and has carried out accident investigation. In the future, the Ministry of industry and information technology will be more strict in the quality supervision of power battery, and it will be normal to interview new energy vehicle enterprises and power battery enterprises. At present, Zhihang new energy is the first domestic enterprise to be interviewed by the Ministry of industry and information technology after the issuance of the notice, but it will not be the last one.