As a mega-city integrating mountainous terrain, river networks, and a major industrial base, Chongqing boasts a solid industrial foundation and abundant application scenarios. The city has achieved initial success in the development of its low-altitude economy. In the first half of 2025, the city's total low-altitude flight duration reached 190,000 hours, a year-on-year increase of 109%, while the number of flights reached 1.16 million, up 67% year-on-year.
Tian Zhong, Deputy Secretary of the of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, stated that the New Area will leverage the conference as a bond to further promote deep integration across sectors and industries, accelerate the demonstration of "low-altitude+" application scenarios, and leverage its strengths in industries such as intelligent-connected New Energy Vehicles (NEVs), AI and software information, high-end equipment, and biomedicine to develop typical application scenarios like "low-altitude + smart city," "low-altitude + logistics," and "low-altitude + cultural tourism."
Tu Xingyong, Deputy Director of the Chongqing Municipal Economy and Information Technology Commission, said that Chongqing has already achieved positive results in developing its low-altitude economy. The city is now home to 68 low-altitude manufacturing enterprises, including 17 complete aircraft manufacturers, with a total output value of 8.3 billion yuan in 2024, an increase of 3.3%. Moving forward, Chongqing will continue to promote the construction of a comprehensive low-altitude flight management and service platform, create iconic "low-altitude+" scenarios, strengthen and expand low-altitude manufacturing, and improve the ecosystem for low-altitude economic development.
The conference released the "Integrated Planning, Construction, and Governance" low-altitude scenario from Liangping District in Chongqing and the "Soaring with the Wind Over the City of Poetry" low-altitude scenario from Fengjie County. It also held signing ceremonies for the "Framework Agreement on Building a Regional Aviation Logistics Hub" and the "Strategic Cooperation Agreement on the Low-Altitude Economy". In addition, experts and scholars attending the conference exchanged views and discussed topics such as development assurance for low-altitude aircraft, safety and verification technologies for new-energy and new-configuration low-altitude equipment, new-type information infrastructure for low-altitude airspace, intelligent-connected technology support for the safe and healthy development of low-attitude areas, low-altitude economic capability systems, low-altitude intelligent digital base, and the application of drone logistics in the low-altitude economy.
The event was hosted by the Chongqing Industrial Intelligent Technology Research Institute, with think tank support from the China Economic Information Service (Chongqing Center).
Source: Xinhua Silk Road
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