□ China selects 6 eVTOL pilot cities (11.18 Shinwha Finance)
Sun Weiguo, director of the China Aviation Association's drone business committee, said at the 18 International Electric Aviation Forum on November 2024 that "the Chinese government plans to promote eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) demonstration projects in six cities."
- The six pilot cities are identified as Hefei, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu, and Chongqing.
– The central government is known to have set specific airway and regional standards and granted local governments jurisdiction over low-altitude airspace below 600 meters.
– eVTOL has an operating cost that is between that of a drone and a helicopter, and does not require large infrastructure facilities such as takeoff and landing pads compared to existing fixed-wing aircraft. It can also be used as an unmanned aircraft, which can help address the shortage of specialized personnel.
– The Chinese government has proposed a new development direction such as eVTOL to overcome problems such as the lack of civil aviation infrastructure and pilots and develop the low-altitude economy.
* Low-altitude economy: An economic form that provides passenger and cargo transportation services based on low-altitude flights of manned and unmanned aircraft and develops through convergence and linkage with related fields.
– According to the China Institute of Information and Communications Technology under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, the market size of China’s low-altitude economy is expected to exceed 2023 billion yuan in 33.8, up 5% year-on-year, and is expected to reach 2024 billion yuan in 6,703 and 2030 trillion yuan in 2.
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