There are more than 1700 enterprises in the industrial chain, with an annual output value of 96 billion yuan! Drones “lift” Shenzhen low-altitude economy

Drones are an important part of the low-altitude economy, and are widely used in many fields such as smart cities, logistics and transportation, emergency rescue, aerial surveying, and environmental protection, providing huge development space for industrial services.

By the end of 2023, there are more than 1,700 drone enterprises in Shenzhen, with an annual output value of 96 billion yuan, an increase of 28%; A total of 126 low-altitude air routes have been opened, 89 UAV take-off and landing points have been built, and more than 600,000 UAV cargo and comprehensive flights will be carried out by 2023.

New business forms “landing” and new scenes “taking off”

Carrying drone DJI FlyCart 30. Photo Source: DJI

On August 16 last year, DJI released the first carrier drone DJI FlyCart 30, as a sign, DJI unmanned aerial vehicles officially opened the “new era of low-altitude carrier.” Founded in 2006, it officially cut into logistics drones in 2023. In the past 17 years, the development of DJI drones has experienced from basic flight to entertainment operation, operational flight, and then to today’s payload flight.

The development track of DJI drones is the real profile of Shenzhen taking the lead in promoting the rapid development of drones from scientific research attributes, entertainment attributes, operational attributes to traffic attributes.

At present, Meituan drones have opened 22 routes in 8 business districts in Shenzhen and other cities. Photo source: Meituan drone

In the past two years, the life scene of drone carrying flight has frequently appeared in Shenzhen. In Shenzhen Xinghe WORLD, Bantian Street, Longgang District, as the delivery drone slowly drops, the cabinet door above the Meituan intelligent food cabinet slowly opens, and the drone skillfully puts the milk tea in the progressive food cabinet. Subsequently, the public Miss Zhao came to the cabinet to take away the milk tea, from the takeaway order to delivery, only 14 minutes.

First flight test of eVTOL (unmanned manned electric vertical Take-off and Landing Vehicle) in Shenzhen low-altitude fusion Flight Demonstration Zone. Photo

Takeout “fell from the sky”, travel “soaring”. On January 6, the “Shenzhen low-altitude fusion Flight Demonstration Zone eVTOL (Unmanned manned electric vertical Take-off and landing vehicle) first flight test” was completed in Dameisha Binhai Bus Station, and the activity site showed the EH216-S unmanned manned aircraft flying around the field. The aircraft has successfully obtained the type certificate and standard airworthiness certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, becoming the first eVTOL in the world to obtain the airworthiness certificate. At the end of December 2023, a standardized urban air traffic operation demonstration center landed in Bao ‘an District, Shenzhen, and an unmanned manned aircraft from Guangzhou Ehang conducted a test flight demonstration.

The continuous test flights of unmanned manned aircraft (aircraft) mean that in the near future, the way of travel in Shenzhen, in addition to “City Walk”, there are “City Fly”.

According to the data of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Transport, from January to October 2023, Shenzhen has opened 74 new UAV routes, 69 new UAV take-off and landing points, and completed 421,000 cargo UAV flights. More than 1,500 enterprises in the industrial chain, such as DJI, Fengyi Technology, Meituan UAV, CITIC Haizhi, and Eastern General Aviation, cover a variety of application scenarios such as logistics distribution, urban governance, and emergency rescue.

The construction of systems to ensure the safe flight of drones is also accelerating. Last year, the Longhua District government and Yuanyuan Technology jointly built a low-altitude digital integrated service platform, and completed the first low-altitude digital navigation map access to the CIM platform, realizing the integration of low-altitude data and urban data, providing one-stop services for the registration, declaration and low-altitude communication, navigation, weather and other flight support for Longhua District general navigation and drone users. And support Longhua District low-altitude scene application and business model innovation.

In addition, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Digital Economy Institute is committed to developing a Smart Integrated Lower Airspace System (SILAS), which will meet the needs of large-scale safe flights in the future based on the principle of maximizing the development and utilization of airspace resources. To realize the full digital intelligent layout of airspace structure and routes, as well as dynamic optimization and adjustment.

From “new business form” to “new scene”, from “new scene” to “new system”, at present, Shenzhen is actively laying out the low-altitude economic industrial chain and building an international first-class low-altitude economic industrial cluster.

“Shenzhen 20” to help low-altitude economy “soar”

2023 The 7th World UAV Conference will be held in Shenzhen.

According to the Shenzhen Drone Industry Association, by 2024, the market size of drones in the country will reach 160 billion yuan, of which the market size of express logistics drones is about 30 billion yuan.

There is no doubt that drones have become an important support for the development of low-altitude economy, as low-altitude economy has become a strategic emerging industry, Shenzhen takes off not only drones, but also low-altitude economic industries that are taking off.

At the end of 2023, seven departments of Shenzhen jointly issued Several Measures to Support the High-quality Development of Low-altitude Economy in Shenzhen, putting forward 20 specific support measures around four aspects: inducing enterprises in the low-altitude economic chain, encouraging technological innovation, expanding low-altitude flight application scenarios, and improving the industrial supporting environment to promote the high-quality development of low-altitude economy.

At present, Shenzhen is accelerating the improvement of low-altitude economic hardware and software infrastructure and supporting facilities, to carry out the construction of low-altitude intelligent integration infrastructure projects, by 2025, Shenzhen will grid more than 600 low-altitude aircraft takeoff and landing platforms, opened more than 220 urban UAV routes, chain enterprises exceeded 1700, output value exceeded 100 billion yuan mark. Source: Thepaper.cn

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