CCTV News: On February 27, 2024, two electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles flew from the Shenzhen Shekou cruise home port. They were driven by pure electric power, no runway, vertically climbed to a low altitude of more than 100 meters, crossed the bay at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour, and landed at the Jiuzhou Port Pier in Zhuhai 20 minutes later. In 2024, the number of plant protection drones nationwide reached 251,000, with an operating area of 2.67 billion mu, an increase of nearly 25% year-on-year. The company that occupies the top sales list in the plant protection drone market is in Shenzhen. As of the end of 2024, the food delivery platform has opened 53 drone routes in Shenzhen, an increase of nearly 100% year-on-year. Especially in specific scenarios, drones show efficiency advantages that ground riders cannot match. Low-altitude airspace is a new unmanned land, with huge development potential and imagination space from rural areas to cities, from carrying goods to carrying people.
