Both PetroChina and Sinopec seem to be going all in transforming their gas stations into charging+gas stations. The Yangtze Delta highway rest areas (高速服务区), where Sinopec is dominant, all have large (50+ fast chargers) charging areas that are quite busy.
Charging stations are becoming easier to find than gas stations. I was recently in Dali Yunan, and I charged my rental Lixiang L8 at Sinopec fast chargers! Even the small towns in Yunan have fast chargers by the National Grid South.
Edit: In major cities in China, I think the charging networks are already adequate. And charging is cheap: Yunan is around 1 yuan(US$0.15) /KWh, Shanghai 1.2-2yuan/KWh. The cheapest I got so far is Zhoushan, Zhejiang, at 1/2 yuan/KWh.
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