Longhua mulls building low-altitude economy demonstration zone

Longhua District will collaborate with China Mobile Shenzhen to establish China’s first demonstration zone focused on network infrastructure and application scenarios for the low-altitude economy.

A signing ceremony was recently held to formalize the partnership, during which both parties unveiled a two-year action plan for building the low-altitude economy demonstration zone in Longhua.

As Shenzhen’s operational testing ground for low-altitude activities and a pilot demonstration zone for drone delivery, Longhua aims to take the lead in exploring multi-scenario applications of low-altitude infrastructure.

Guo Mingjie, deputy general manager of China Mobile Shenzhen, outlined the company’s strategic role in boosting the development of Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy and relevant sectors.

Through three key pillars — leading new infrastructure, enabling new scenarios, and co-creating ecosystems — the project will establish a core framework consisting of an industrial network, an innovation platform, and multiple commercial application scenarios for the low-altitude economy. This framework will drive the development of a wide-area communication network, an intelligent navigation system, and a high-performance sensing network, thereby strengthening the city’s low-altitude economy infrastructure.

Longhua People's Hospital utilizes drones to transfer medical samples. File photo

Leveraging the core capabilities of China Mobile Guangdong’s low-altitude technology base, the demonstration will integrate communication, navigation, sensing, and airspace management to enable application scenarios such as logistics, medical delivery, aerial patrols, emergency response, urban air mobility, and security monitoring.

Additionally, advanced infrastructure — including 5G-A integrated sensing base stations, radar systems, photoelectric sensors, and high-precision positioning base stations powered by BeiDou satellites — will be deployed to ensure seamless, high-quality network coverage across the demonstration zone. Integrated with 3D urban management models, the zone will also facilitate government oversight and provide comprehensive industrial services for future development.

To further drive innovation, China Mobile Shenzhen has partnered with the Shenzhen Geographic Information Center, the Shenzhen Institute of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Huawei, Meituan Drones, Phoenix Wings, and Heli-Eastern to establish the Low-Altitude Economy Joint Innovation Center. This collaborative platform aims to accelerate technological breakthroughs and foster industrial incubation in the low-altitude economy sector.