A CATL company visit in Ningde, Fujian, gives business delegations a structured introduction to battery technology, manufacturing and the new-energy battery industry. The visit covers CATL’s technology building and production facilities, followed by a thematic session.
CATL Visit Overview
The sample itinerary runs from 09:10 to 14:30. It includes the technology building exhibition, a production workshop visit, an introduction to CATL’s “Ningjia” smart service, lunch and an afternoon industry session. This new company-visit page serves a different purpose from our CATL overseas expansion analysis, which focuses on overseas sites and market strategy.
Why Visit CATL in Ningde?
Battery manufacturing is a useful setting for studying the link between engineering, process design, quality and scale. A company visit lets participants move from general discussion of battery technology to the systems and operating decisions that shape production. Consumer-device groups can compare a different manufacturing model on an OPPO company visit in Dongguan.
For a delegation, the value is not limited to seeing equipment. The more useful questions concern how products are designed for real applications, how manufacturing processes support consistency, and how services continue after equipment or products reach customers.
Start at the CATL Technology Building
Exhibition and Technology Context
The program begins with CATL’s technology building exhibition. This stop introduces the company and the battery industry through exhibits and application examples. Participants can use the exhibition to establish shared vocabulary before the production and industry sessions.
Teams can prepare questions about battery chemistry, application needs, product safety, manufacturing quality and the role of energy storage. Questions should be tied to the group’s sector; an automotive delegation may focus on vehicle applications, while an energy group may focus on storage and grid use.
Observe Battery Manufacturing
Production Workshop Visit
The itinerary includes a visit to a production workshop presented as a pioneering production line. Delegates can learn from the way the program presents process flow, automation and quality considerations. The exact visitor route and visible production areas follow the arranged program.
The visit can prompt a practical discussion about how a production process is designed to deliver consistency. What must be controlled at each stage? How are quality checks integrated into the process? How do equipment, data and trained staff work together? These questions make the plant visit relevant to manufacturing teams beyond the battery sector.
Understand Ningjia Smart Services
The program includes a session on “Ningjia” smart services. This provides a point of discussion about how a manufacturer can extend its role beyond production by developing services around its products and users.
For business teams, the broader learning question is how services can add value across a product’s life cycle. Participants can examine how customer needs are identified, how service information is used and how service operations relate to product reliability and customer experience.
CATL Industry Session
The afternoon session is described as a presentation on the development, current state and outlook of the new-energy battery industry. The session is delivered by a business-unit director with more than 20 years of automotive experience.
This session can help participants connect company-level observations with changes in the wider industry. Topics for the group’s discussion may include market development, technology adoption, manufacturing capacity and the relationships between battery suppliers, vehicle manufacturers and energy businesses.
Sample CATL Itinerary
The sample timetable below reflects the program format we arrange.
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 09:10–10:00 | Visit the CATL technology building exhibition |
| 10:00–10:50 | Visit the production workshop |
| 10:50–11:30 | Introduction to Ningjia smart services |
| 11:30–13:00 | Lunch and break |
| 13:00–14:30 | Thematic session on the new-energy battery industry |
Who Should Consider a CATL Visit?
The visit is relevant to battery and electric-vehicle businesses, energy-storage companies, manufacturing and engineering teams, supply-chain leaders, and organizations studying new-energy industries. It can also serve executive groups seeking a grounded view of how technology and production systems interact.
To make the session useful, delegations should identify their main questions in advance. Manufacturing groups may compare process and quality approaches; energy companies may focus on storage applications; automotive teams may examine supplier and product relationships.
Getting to Ningde and Preparing for the Visit
The program is based in Ningde, Fujian. The exact meeting point and transport arrangements will be included in the program itinerary. Visitors should follow the site guidance provided for the arranged route and workshop areas. The program is arranged within our Shanghai tech tour region, and more options are listed under company visits.
Please contact us at least 30 days before your preferred visit date. The programme is best suited to groups of 10–20 participants. We charge per group, so larger groups usually offer better value per person. Individuals and smaller groups are welcome to enquire at a higher per-person rate. These are our service terms for organizing the delegation.
Process Flow and Production Discipline
During a workshop visit, participants can follow how a product moves through a sequence of operations. The learning focus is on the logic of the process: what has to remain stable, where checks occur and how the process responds when an issue is detected. These observations are useful to manufacturing teams even when their products are different.
Quality as a System
Quality is not only a final inspection. It depends on how requirements are translated into work instructions, how process conditions are controlled and how teams learn from exceptions. Delegates can use the visit to discuss where quality is created, where it is measured and how information moves between engineering and production.
Automation, People and Data
Automation is most useful when it fits the process and the information available to people running it. Participants can observe the relationship between equipment and human work, then ask how teams monitor status, respond to variation and maintain continuity. The goal is to understand the operating design, not to assume that more automation automatically means better performance.
Read the Visit Through Your Industry Lens
The same CATL visit can prompt different questions for different sectors. An automotive group may focus on product integration and supplier coordination. An energy-storage team may focus on use cases and service life. A manufacturing delegation may pay closer attention to process control, quality and production planning. The shared program creates common reference points, while the group’s questions make the discussion relevant. Automotive delegations often combine this program with a DiDi company visit in Beijing to follow battery manufacturing through to mobility services.
For Automotive and Battery Teams
Automotive and battery teams can discuss how product requirements, reliability expectations and manufacturing capability inform each other. A useful question is how teams coordinate as a product moves from engineering definition to production and customer use.
For Energy and Storage Teams
Energy teams can use the industry session to consider how battery technology connects to storage applications, operating environments and commercial models. The group should distinguish what it observed at the site from broader market assumptions that need separate research.
For Manufacturing and Supply-Chain Leaders
Operations leaders can map the visit to their own process challenges: quality variation, equipment performance, workforce training, supplier coordination or scale-up. Bringing one concrete challenge helps the discussion move from general admiration to practical learning.
From Site Observation to an Actionable Debrief
A company visit is not a benchmark study by itself. The team should record the conditions behind what it sees and avoid assuming that a practice will work unchanged in a different factory, regulatory environment or supply chain. After the visit, compare observations against the delegation’s own processes and identify which idea deserves a closer feasibility review.
A concise debrief can separate three things: facts observed during the program, interpretations discussed by the group, and follow-up questions requiring additional evidence. This distinction makes the learning more useful for decision-makers who were not present and prevents an illustrative example from being treated as a universal rule.
After the Visit: Separate Observation from Benchmark
A site visit provides examples, not an automatic benchmark. Record what the delegation directly observed, what the host explained and what the group inferred. Then compare those observations with the group’s own production systems, product requirements and markets. A practice that works in one plant may depend on scale, process design, workforce capability or supply-chain conditions that differ elsewhere.
The most useful follow-up is usually a focused question: which process or capability should the team investigate further, what evidence would be needed, and who should take that review forward? This turns a one-day visit into a concrete learning task.
The delegation can also record which points came directly from the visit and which are questions for later research. That distinction matters when comparing a high-capability production site with a company’s own operating conditions. The follow-up should identify one process question, the evidence needed to answer it and the people responsible for reviewing it.
Questions About a CATL Company Visit
Where is the CATL visit located? The program includes the visit at CATL’s technology building and production facilities in Ningde, Fujian.
How long is the sample program? It runs from 09:10 to 14:30.
What does the itinerary include? It includes an exhibition visit, production workshop, Ningjia smart services session, lunch and an industry presentation.
Is this the same as the CATL overseas expansion page? No. This page covers the Ningde company visit; our CATL overseas analysis covers overseas expansion and industry strategy.
How far in advance should we arrange the visit? Please contact us at least 30 days in advance.
What group size works best? The programme is best suited to groups of 10–20 participants. We charge per group, so larger groups usually offer better value per person. Individuals and smaller groups are welcome to enquire at a higher per-person rate.
Arranging your CATL visit
We arrange the visit for you end to end: the introduction to the host, the scheduling on the Chinese side and on-site English interpretation. Tell us your preferred dates, group size and learning goals to start planning. Start at chinatechvisits.com/company-visits.