Recently, at the 2022 China Civil Unmanned Aviation Development International Forum, the Civil Aviation Administration of China officially awarded the second batch of civil unmanned aviation test bases such as Shenzhen. After becoming a national general aviation industry comprehensive demonstration zone and a national general aviation classification management reform pilot, Shenzhen has won the title of a national pilot zone in the field of low-altitude economy. Data show that in 2021, the annual output value of Shenzhen’s drone industry will reach nearly 60 billion yuan. Enterprises such as Meituan and SF Express have already carried out large-scale drone delivery in depth, and with the further maturity of technology and the strengthening of top-level design, more drone application scenarios are expected to accelerate.
The low-altitude economy is booming, and logistics drones help “everything to go home”
As a city of innovation, the “power of science and technology” is the endogenous driving force for Shenzhen to drive the growth of local consumption. “Just click on your mobile phone, and your favorite lipstick can be sent from the nearest department store, and it can be delivered to consumers within 15 minutes by drone.” This kind of hard-core technology experience based on the full scene of instant retail When it was a novelty elsewhere, it was no surprise to Shenzhen residents.
In the Xinghe World Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park in Shenzhen, the “ramen master” of the noodle shop “Noodle Maker” is a robot cluster, and a bowl of noodles made by robots, after diners place an order on Meituan, will be sent to Meituan through Meituan.com. Humans and machines are delivered to diners.
In August, UAV also reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Rainbow Digital. In addition to cooperating in the distribution of daily meals and beverages, the two parties will also test retail products such as fast-moving consumer goods and beauty cosmetics, and provide residents around the business district with a radius of “3 kilometers 15″. Minutes” a new service experience for everything to home.
Low-altitude drones are gradually flying into people’s livelihood consumption, which is a typical representative of the new development of Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy. The low-altitude economy refers to a comprehensive economic form that is driven by the low-altitude flight activities of various manned and unmanned aircraft, and radiates and drives the integrated development of related fields. It covers a wide range of fields and industries, and can be used in various industries such as agriculture, industry and service.
Real-time retail is booming, accelerating the landing of drone application scenarios
At the 2nd International Forum on the Development of Civil Unmanned Aviation in China, Mao Yiian, the head of Meituan’s drone business, introduced that in recent years, the demand for instant retail has exploded, and the market has shown a trend of diversified consumption, which makes urban low-altitude terminal logistics Development is on the fast track.
Instant retail is a new retail format that integrates online and offline (300959) development. Its typical feature is that users can receive goods within 30 minutes after placing an order on online platforms such as Meituan and JD.com. Different from traditional e-commerce, the commodity supply of instant retail mainly relies on various local physical stores, creating a new path for the development of local physical stores.
During this period, the number of instant delivery orders increased to 4.1 billion. With the changes in consumption habits, users’ requirements for the timeliness of delivery of goods have further increased, which has also promoted the application of new technologies such as drones. Mao said that as the technology gradually matures, more and more scenarios will realize the landing application of UAVs, accelerating the popularity of UAVs.
According to the data provided by the Shenzhen Municipal Transportation Bureau, Meituan drones have opened 11 normalized trial operation routes in urban scenarios, completed more than 70,000 real orders, and the total flight time of delivery has exceeded 10,000 hours, and the cumulative test has exceeded 400,000 sorties.
China is the most important industrial base for civil drones in the world. In 2021, there will be more than 12,000 drone companies in the country, and the total output value of the industry will reach 87 billion yuan. Among them, there are more than 1,500 in Shenzhen alone, with an output value of nearly 60 billion yuan, and consumer drones account for 74% of the global market share.
Shenzhen has also issued relevant policy plans to support and guide the development of the industry. Among them, the “Shenzhen Action Plan for Promoting the Construction of New Information Infrastructure (2022-2025)” and “Shenzhen Comprehensive Transportation “14th Five-Year Plan” clearly defined the construction of low-altitude civilian drone networking systems and the creation of drone-based urban low-altitude logistics. Target tasks such as operation center and dispatch supervision platform, construction of urban low-altitude logistics network, and promotion of innovative application of drones in smart city logistics.
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