SZ speeds up developing low-altitude economy
Shenzhen is speeding up efforts to turn itself into a prominent logistics hub with global influence to help contribute to the city’s high-quality development, according to Han Liqing, Party chief and director of the Shenzhen Municipal Transport Bureau, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported yesterday.
A Meituan delivery drone. Jin Lu
According to Han, the bureau has quantified 20 transport development indicators and detailed 178 work measures focusing on logistics.
The city will accelerate building a world-leading low-altitude economic center and promote the building of the country’s first logistics unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturing factory, with over 500,000 cargo-carrying UAV flights.
Earlier this year, the Shenzhen UAV Industry Association revealed that in 2022, there were over 12,000 UAV enterprises nationwide with an annual output of more than 117 billion yuan (US$17.32 billion).
Among that, Shenzhen had over 1,300 UAV enterprises with an annual output exceeding 75 billion yuan, posting an annual growth rate of more than 30%. At present, Shenzhen has formed a relatively complete industrial ecological chain in the UAV industry.
According to the city’s transport bureau, Shenzhen will also expedite building itself into a world-renowned international shipping center and push its container throughput and liquefied natural gas (LNG) loading and unloading volume to new highs.
The city will expand and intensify upwards of 10 international routes, strive to double its passenger throughput and hit fresh highs in international cargo and mail throughput.
Shenzhen also sets its sights on becoming a supply chain organization center with global resource allocation capabilities and cultivating supply chain service enterprises with annual revenue reaching 10 billion yuan.
It aims to turn the China (Shenzhen) International Logistics and Supply Chain Fair into a top-notch fair in the global logistics industry by attracting over 100 international exhibitors, the bureau said.