Xie Jia / Senior vice president of Autoflight

Its top speed reaches 200 kilometers per hour. With a single battery charge, it is capable of flying 250.3 kilometers and it also has a cargo model with a maximum load capacity of 400kg.

The 5-seat air taxi, named ‘Prosperity,’ completed a flight from Shekou, Shenzhen, to the Zhuhai Jiuzhou Port, shortening the original 3-hour journey to just 20 minutes. The fare for this aircraft is expected to be 300 RMB per person, making it a cheaper and faster option compared to taking a taxi. This flight marked the world's first vertical take-off and landing demonstration of an electric aircraft across seas and cities. Manned flights are expected to begin in 2026, with hundreds of routes and thousands of take-off and landing spots of ‘Prosperity’ in the Greater Bay Area.

Zhang Chuntao / Deputy director of the control and operation department of Shenzhen ATC station of civil aviation

We will continue to communicate and cooperate with relevant units of all parties to build up ground operation and air navigation service capacity. We will carry out various explorations and improve management in various aspects such as airspace use, separation and other operational assurance process to promote the continuous improvement of low-altitude services of air traffic control.

China is vigorously developing new quality productive forces and true ‘air taxi,’ marking an important milestone in China's low-altitude economic development. The scale of the national low-altitude economy is projected to exceed RMB 500 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach RMB 30 trillion by 2030. Some scholars believe that the potential is enormous.

Lu Renli / Director of the department of general aviation, Civil Aviation Management Institute of China

The skills of consumer drones and performance drones are fully developed and are being utilized in urban and rural logistics distribution, emergency firefighting, inspection of electricity, and other infrastructure. Applications in areas such as ecological and environmental protection are gradually becoming more developed. There is a need to further enhance cost and performance advantages. In China, drone agricultural plant protection covers over 1.4 billion acres annually. The main objectives of these applications are to enhance quality and scale.