A worker monitors lithium battery cells on a production line at the newly commissioned second phase of CORNEX NEW ENERGY's 80-gigawatt hour battery industrial park in Yichang, Central China's Hubei Province, on August 9, 2026. The project, with a total investment of 22 billion yuan ($3.1 billion), is designed to produce more than 800,000 battery cells a day at full capacity. Photo: VCG