Talking about | From the perspectives of application, market, and policy, drones can assist the development of low altitude economy
Talking about | From the perspectives of application, market, and policy, drones can assist the development of low altitude economy
The civil drone industry, as an important emerging industry, has broad development space and has shown a trend of agglomeration development. As of the end of 2022, there are 15000 drone operation enterprises in China, with an annual output value of 117 billion yuan. 950000 registered drones have flown approximately 386 million times in real-time, with a flight duration of approximately 16.689 million hours. It is expected that the domestic drone market will reach approximately 160 billion yuan by 2024.
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Due to the advantages of low cost, strong maneuverability, convenient use, and ease of operation, drones have been widely used in both military and civilian fields.
Unmanned aerial vehicles can be considered as "safety guards" in the air, playing an increasingly important role in safeguarding urban and social public safety. At present, drones have been widely used in fields such as social governance, urban management, aerial photography, agriculture, forestry and plant protection, geographic surveying and mapping, power inspection, emergency firefighting, express logistics, environmental monitoring, etc. The continuous deepening development of the civil drone application field has put forward higher requirements for industry development, and has brought about larger market potential, making it a new growth point for the large fixed wing long endurance drone industry.
Taking police drones as an example, drones have been widely used as a new type of police equipment in various public security organs in recent years. According to incomplete statistics, the public security organs in China are currently equipped with over 5000 drones of various types. The application of police drones has played an important role in tasks such as arresting fugitives, patrolling and searching, drug removal and control, counter-terrorism and riot prevention, traffic emergency management, and large-scale event security.
At the same time, unmanned aerial vehicles are expected to play a greater role in collaborative heavy transportation. China has a complex terrain, with plateaus and mountainous areas accounting for nearly 60% of the country's land area; And disasters occur frequently, with typhoons along the coast, landslides and mudslides along the river, and earthquakes in mountainous areas. Huang Panfeng stated that when natural disasters such as landslides and mudslides occur, highways and railways are interrupted, and land transportation is unable to transport materials, using traditional helicopters for air transportation in complex terrain is extremely difficult, costly, and time-consuming. Introducing unmanned aerial vehicle transportation or solving the above problems. At the same time, unmanned aerial vehicle transportation also has advantages in supplying supplies to small islands and isolated border checkpoints.
