Anting town in Shanghai's Jiading district recently signed two agreements set to advance the local low-altitude economy — the rapidly growing area driven by delivery and agricultural drones, flying taxis and airborne adventures, among other things.
The first agreement, signed with the Peking University International S&T Innovation Center at the Lin-gang Special Area, focuses on establishing an unmanned systems research and development laboratory.
The lab in Anting will specialize in low-altitude intelligent systems —covering areas such as digital airspace, flight scheduling, intelligent payloads, unauthorized flight monitoring and digital low-altitude data assets.
It will explore the creation of "airspace usage rights" and actively participate in the formulation of key standards for airspace management and data asset rights and circulation.
The second agreement, with intelligent equipment technology company BDKG, involves setting up its Shanghai industry cluster headquarters in Anting.
This project will prioritize its low-altitude flight equipment series of products, aiming to develop autonomous and controllable air traffic management technology. BDKG's work on unmanned aerial vehicles and dual-rotor helicopters is said to represent a significant advancement in heavy-duty unmanned aircraft technology.
The project plans to build a computing power center to provide a robust foundation for processing vast amounts of airspace and industrial data.
In response to the rapid growth and innovation in the low-altitude economy, Jiading has established a drone training base to expand the coverage of drones across multiple fields — promoting the standardized and diversified development of the low-altitude economy.