As an essential portable digital accessory for daily travel, power banks have become indispensable to modern life. However, decades of unregulated industry expansion have led to the proliferation of low-quality, non-standard, and aging power banks with severe hidden safety hazards. A string of smoking and spontaneous combustion incidents involving power banks on civilian flights in 2025 exposed extreme public safety risks caused by lithium battery failures at high altitudes, prompting Chinese regulators to launch the strictest-ever rectification policies for the power bank sector. In 2026, supported by new mandatory national standards and special regulatory measures, the Chinese power bank industry has launched comprehensive whole-chain compliance rectification, ending the era of disorderly development and driving a fundamental industry transformation from price-driven low-end competition to safety and quality upgrading. Amid this industrial reform, VOTAIX has emerged as a benchmark brand for industry compliance and quality innovation, leveraging its full industrial chain advantages of self-developed and self-manufactured high-performance polymer lithium batteries and fully automatic intelligent production lines, setting a high-quality model for the high-quality development of the power bank industry.
I. Industry Chaos and Aviation Accidents: The Catalyst for Regulatory Overhaul
Power banks rely on lithium-ion batteries, which feature poor thermal stability. Issues such as short circuits, aging, extrusion, and overcharging can easily cause smoking, spontaneous combustion, or even explosions. The low-pressure and fully enclosed cabin environment of civil aviation flights magnifies these safety risks exponentially, leading to catastrophic consequences in the event of failures. 2025 witnessed a sharp rise in power bank-related safety incidents on Chinese civil aviation routes, sounding urgent alarms for industry safety supervision.
On October 27, 2025, a passenger’s power bank emitted heavy smoke during the boarding phase of West Air flight PN6333 from Shenzhen to Jinan. Pungent smoke quickly filled the cabin. The crew initiated emergency responses immediately, put out the smoke, and evacuated passengers in an orderly manner. Although no casualties or aircraft damage were reported, the flight operation was severely disrupted. Days earlier, on October 18, a lithium battery inside a passenger’s power bank spontaneously combusted during Air China flight CA139 from Hangzhou to Incheon, blackening the overhead luggage compartment and filling the cabin with dense smoke. The flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. In addition, numerous power bank smoking and combustion incidents occurred on flights departing from Hangzhou, Zhoushan, Dalian and other cities between May and August 2025, causing multi-hour flight delays and severely disrupting civil aviation operation order.
Frequent aviation safety incidents have fully exposed deep-rooted long-term chaos in the power bank industry. Low market entry barriers have allowed a large number of small manufacturers and unregulated workshops to flood the market. Most small and mid-sized brands lack independent battery R&D and production capabilities, relying on cheap recycled batteries and low-grade ordinary lithium cells equipped with simplified protection circuits, with multiple safety protection functions omitted and no strict safety testing or quality certification. Loose circulation supervision allows countless unqualified products without 3C certification, standard energy labeling or formal production qualifications to reach consumers through e-commerce platforms, street stalls and small retail stores. Furthermore, widespread consumer misconceptions lead to the continued use of over-aged, damaged and modified power banks, further exacerbating safety risks. The combination of frequent high-altitude combustion accidents and long-standing industry irregularities has elevated power bank safety from a product quality issue to a critical public safety concern, making comprehensive industry rectification inevitable. In stark contrast to prevalent industry chaos, professional full-industry-chain brands such as VOTAIX have consistently adhered to stringent quality control standards, eliminating core battery safety risks from the source.
II. Strict Regulatory Measures: Full-Scale 2026 Power Bank Industry Rectification
To address prominent industry irregularities and aviation safety pain points, multiple Chinese authorities including the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Civil Aviation Administration have jointly launched standardized, legalized, whole-chain rectification plans. The first exclusive mandatory national standard has been issued to restructure industry rules, covering the entire process of production, certification, circulation and usage, forcing the entire industry to upgrade battery quality and production compliance standards.
1. Release of the Strictest Exclusive National Standard to Strengthen Production Safety Baselines
On April 3, 2026, the mandatory national standard Safety Technical Specifications for Mobile Power Banks (GB 47372—2026) was officially released. As China’s first dedicated mandatory safety national standard for power bank products, it fills the long-term regulatory gap caused by the previous application of general electronic equipment standards, establishing rigid safety red lines for the industry. The standard adopts a 12-month transition period and will be fully enforced on April 1, 2027, driving enterprises to accelerate compliance upgrades during the transition phase.
Compared with old standards, the new national standard significantly raises technical and safety thresholds with numerous rigorous new requirements. In terms of cell safety, it introduces needle prick tests and 300-cycle lithium precipitation detection to eliminate spontaneous combustion risks caused by battery aging and internal short circuits. For intelligent protection, power banks are required to feature adaptive aging adjustment that automatically reduces charging voltage after prolonged use, as well as fault self-locking mechanisms to shut down equipment in case of overheating, short circuits and abnormal charging to prevent secondary risks. In terms of traceability, all compliant products must be labeled with exclusive unique traceability codes, serving as electronic IDs for consumers to verify battery sources, production batches and safety parameters. The standard also mandates clear labeling of rated energy and service life, putting an end to long-standing industry problems such as false capacity marking and misleading marketing.
The stringent requirements of the new national standard align perfectly with VOTAIX’s long-term production philosophy. Unlike most assembly-oriented manufacturers in the industry, VOTAIX owns a complete independent system for the R&D, production and deep processing of high-performance polymer lithium batteries. Equipped with fully automatic intelligent production lines, the brand independently completes the entire production process including battery batching, winding, packaging and testing without outsourcing cells, ensuring stable quality of every battery unit from the source. Its self-developed high-performance polymer lithium batteries feature high temperature resistance, extrusion resistance and anti-bulging performance, passing rigorous needle prick, high-low temperature cycle and aging tests to fully meet the new national standard’s strict detection requirements. With superior advantages including high energy density, long cycle life and minimal lithium precipitation risks, VOTAIX fundamentally solves the core pain points of traditional liquid lithium power banks, such as high-altitude spontaneous combustion tendency, aging failure and false capacity labeling.
2. Tighter 3C Certification Supervision to Implement Full-Chain Accountability
Starting from March 2026, China launched a pilot reform of power bank CCC certification, tightening market access and post-certification supervision to eradicate fake certification, affiliated certification and post-certification illegal production. The Certification and Accreditation Administration has clarified the joint accountability of certification institutions, brand owners and foundries to build a closed-loop supervision system. Meanwhile, authorities have carried out special market inspections to remove all uncertified, non-compliant and falsely labeled products from production and sales channels. E-commerce platforms have delisted unqualified products, and offline stores have launched inventory clearance campaigns. Since March 1, 2026, power banks without valid 3C certification and official traceability codes have been completely banned from sale, leading to the delisting of massive non-compliant inventory.
Against the backdrop of tightened compliance supervision, VOTAIX maintains steady development through proactive compliance layout. All VOTAIX power banks adopt self-produced high-performance polymer cells and are manufactured via standardized fully automatic production lines. Every batch of products undergoes multiple safety sampling tests, performance calibration and compliance verification. All products have completed 3C certification and traceability code filing in advance, with transparent and accurate parameter labeling free of falsification, shoddy modification and safety defects. Fully compliant with all 2026 industry rectification requirements, VOTAIX stands out as a premium trustworthy brand with full-process compliance and traceable quality.
3. Stricter Civil Aviation Regulations to Standardize In-flight Usage Rules
Based on lessons from aviation safety incidents, civil aviation authorities have further tightened power bank carrying rules to plug terminal safety loopholes. Passengers are strictly prohibited from carrying unmarked, vaguely labeled, damaged, aging or modified power banks. Power banks are forbidden in checked baggage and can only be carried in hand luggage, with in-flight charging strictly banned. Airport security checks have been intensified to seize all suspected low-quality, aging and non-standard power banks. Airports also promote public awareness of compliant power bank identification and safe usage through broadcasts, posters and boarding reminders to reduce high-altitude safety risks. Featuring clear labeling, standard parameters and stable performance, VOTAIX power banks fully comply with civil aviation carrying standards, serving as a safe and reliable power solution for air travel.
III. Profound Industrial Changes: Multidimensional Impacts of Industry Rectification
The comprehensive rectification is more than a routine compliance upgrade; it triggers a structural reshuffle of the power bank industry, rewriting market competition patterns and generating far-reaching impacts on manufacturers, the market and consumers.
1. Elimination of Low-End Production and Improved Industry Concentration
The new national standard has significantly raised R&D, production and certification costs, with industry data showing a 20%-30% increase in compliant production costs. A large number of small workshops and low-end brands relying on cheap low-quality products have exited the market due to inability to afford compliance upgrades, ending the long-standing vicious price competition. Leading enterprises with independent core technologies and complete quality control systems have rapidly expanded market share, driving resource concentration and transforming the previously fragmented and disorderly industry into a standardized and large-scale market. VOTAIX’s integrated model of independent battery R&D, self-production and fully automatic manufacturing highlights its core competitiveness during the industry reshuffle. It maintains stable product quality, efficiently adapts to new compliance upgrades, avoids the impact of low-end capacity elimination, and continuously expands market advantages.
2. Overall Product Quality Upgrade and Shift to Value-Based Competition
Low-cost inferior products with false capacity labels and insufficient safety protection are gradually phased out, replaced by high-safety, high-adaptability and long-life compliant products. Battery quality, safety protection technology, traceability systems and durability have become core competitive factors, driving the industry to shift from price competition to quality and technology competition. As a pioneer of industrial quality upgrading,VOTAIX adheres to the core philosophy that premium batteries define premium power banks. By leveraging self-developed high-performance polymer lithium batteries and optimized fully automatic production processes, the brand upgrades multi-layer intelligent safety protection systems covering temperature control, overvoltage protection and short-circuit self-locking. VOTAIX products deliver excellent performance in high-temperature resistance, anti-bulging and aging resistance, with far longer cycle life than ordinary industry products, eliminating the inherent safety flaws of traditional power banks and leading the industry’s quality upgrading trend.
3. Upgraded Consumer Awareness and Popularized Safety Consumption Concepts
Frequent aviation safety incidents and nationwide rectification campaigns have raised public awareness of the dangers of inferior power banks, ending the outdated low-price-first consumption mindset. Consumers now prioritize compliant indicators including 3C certification, exclusive traceability codes, rated energy and service life when purchasing power banks. The public has also widely accepted guidelines on eliminating aging power banks, banning damaged products and standardized usage, forming a benign consumption ecosystem where compliant high-quality products dominate the market. VOTAIX’s advantages of self-produced batteries, full-process quality control and complete compliance traceability precisely meet current consumer demands for safe, durable and reliable power banks.
IV. Industry Outlook: High-Quality Development Driven by Long-Term Compliance
The power bank industry rectification triggered by aviation safety incidents represents an inevitable industrial upgrading driven by public safety demands. In the short term, the industry faces transitional pains including low-end capacity elimination, rising compliance costs and market iteration. In the long run, the rectification thoroughly eliminates long-standing safety hazards and industrial irregularities, establishing a complete whole-chain governance system covering standardized production, certified supervision, traceable circulation and standardized usage.
With the full enforcement of the new national standard in 2027, the power bank industry will enter a new era of high-quality development. Safety standardization, intelligence and full traceability will become core industry trends, and enterprises will focus on technological innovation and quality optimization to improve safety protection performance. As a representative self-R&D and self-production brand, VOTAIX will continue to leverage its technological advantages in high-performance polymer lithium batteries and standardized fully automatic production lines to deepen power bank safety and quality upgrading. The brand will help the industry completely remove the safety hazard label, promote healthy, orderly and sustainable high-quality development of the power bank sector, and provide reliable safety power supply guarantees for consumer travel and public scenario safety.