GM China President Julian Blissett outlines the specifics of GM’s plans during Tech Day.

General Motors officials revealed that its plan to revive its sales in China center on an influx of new electric vehicles during the next five years.

The company’s plans call for 40% of its new vehicle launches in China to be battery-electric models that the country’s government badly wants. Many of those will be produced in China, officials offered during its Tech Day event that held in Shanghai but simulcast to its Tech Center campus in Warren, Michigan.

GM’s pushing its growing commitment to electric vehicle in China as well as in the U.S. Many of the company’s high profile vehicles, like the coming GMC Hummer and Cadillac Lyriq will make their debuts in the U.S. in the coming year.

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GM showed of its third-generation global electric vehicle platform with its Ultium battery technology.

The automaker noted that the Lyriq would also be part of that critical influx of EVs in the Chinese market, although officials declined to say how many vehicles would be introduced during that timeframe. China accounts for GM’s annual profits, so bolstering its sliding sales is critical to GM’s long-term profitability.

GM’s new China boss Julian Blissett told Reuters that new technologies, such as EVs and cars with near hands-free driving for highways, would play a key role in GM’s China initiatives, which are part of a push to get annual sales in the country back to the 4 million peak it hit in 2017.

Although most of the vehicles in China will be made there, GM’s new state-of-the-art Ultium battery system and third-generation global electric platform will integrate GM’s engineering flexibility, technology advances with highly localized manufacturing, and supply chain in China to enhance quality and cost competitiveness, officials noted.

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“We will enhance local integration and global collaboration by capitalizing on China-leading market trends and playing to the local industry’s strengths,” said Julian Blissett, GM executive vice president and president of GM China. “We are ready to activate a new era.”

GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said China will play a significant role in development of the company’s electric and autonomous programs.

Much of the future growth will center on “intelligent driving,” and specifically the company’s Super Cruise semi-autonomous driver assistance system. It’ll start with Cadillacs and roll out to the company’s Buick and Chevrolet models in China.

The company will also accelerate the development of China-specific solutions for intelligent connected vehicles, with its first global vehicle-to-everything (V2X) program set for launch this year on a Buick GL8 MPV for China.

“China will play a crucial role in making our vision a reality,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in the statement, referring to its initiative to create what it describes as a future of “zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion” through electrification and smart-driving technologies.

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GM’s plans call for an investment of more than $20 billion in electric and automated vehicles globally by 2025. However, the amount that would be directed to China wasn’t revealed.