The Shenzhen Plan for High-Quality Low-Altitude Infrastructure Development (2024–2026) (《深圳市低空基础设施高质量建设方案（2024—2026年）》) sets out construction tasks covering take-off and landing facilities, route networks, intelligent management and supporting safeguards, using infrastructure construction to support the development of the low-altitude economy industry. This article, based on the Association's original interpretation, summarizes the Plan's main objectives; the figures listed are planning targets.

Industrial Scale and R&D and Testing Layout

  • By the end of 2026, the output value of the low-altitude economy is to exceed RMB 130 billion.
  • Establish 10 low-altitude industrial parks and 2 distinctive parks.
  • Advance the "1+5+4" R&D and testing layout, comprising 1 major scientific research facility, 5 test areas and 4 testing grounds.

Take-Off and Landing Facilities and Route Services

  • Build more than 1,200 low-altitude take-off and landing sites of various types and open more than 1,000 commercial passenger and cargo routes.
  • Raise the proportion of built-up urban area covered within a 1-kilometre radius of helicopter and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) take-off and landing facilities to more than 50%.
  • Cover more than 70% of the city's population with "2-hour same-city, 4-hour cross-city" low-altitude express delivery services.
  • Achieve coverage of more than 50% of tertiary hospitals and blood centres (blood stations).
  • For urban governance inspections, extend coverage so that all of the city's parks, rivers, reservoirs and shorelines fall within a 3-kilometre radius of a take-off and landing site.

Facility Arrangements for Different Application Scenarios

  • Helicopter and manned eVTOL take-off and landing sites: 174 newly built, 283 in total.
  • Logistics and transportation take-off and landing sites: 159 newly built, 205 in total.
  • Community delivery take-off and landing sites: 339 newly built, 413 in total.
  • Medical supplies transportation take-off and landing sites: 112 newly built, 148 in total.
  • Commercial district delivery take-off and landing sites: 227 newly built, 265 in total.
  • Urban governance drone take-off and landing sites: more than 340 newly built, 360 in total.

Intelligent Management and Supporting Guarantees

The plan proposes building a Low-Altitude Intelligent Fusion System (SILAS) to enhance monitoring of key airspace, flight coordination and route operation management. Related planned capabilities include covering more than 1,000 passenger and cargo routes, 3 million commercial cargo drone flights per year, supporting low-altitude flights of 10,000-class aircraft and real-time flight coordination for more than 500 entities.

In terms of supporting measures, the plan proposes that by 2026, drone-flyable airspace below 120 metres in the city will account for more than 75%, and that various construction funding channels will be coordinated with social investment as the main source and government investment as a supplement.

Source: the publicly released Shenzhen Plan for High-Quality Low-Altitude Infrastructure Development (2024–2026) (《深圳市低空基础设施高质量建设方案（2024—2026年）》) by the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission. This page is an excerpt of policy materials and does not mean that the above targets have been achieved; specific construction progress and implementation requirements shall be subject to the official releases of the competent authorities.