China Economic Reporter Lu Bingyang and Sun Lizhao reported from Beijing
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Senior Vice President of Zhongke Xingtou and President of Zhongke Lanzhuo Yu Hanwen. Zhongke Lanzhuo/Photo
&#34;The low-altitude economy is not a sprint, but a long-distance race that requires policy guidance, capital support, technological breakthroughs, and market cultivation to work together. Only when 'can fly, can manage, can use well, and can earn' forms a positive cycle can low altitude truly become a new growth pole of the Chinese economy.&#34; Yu Hanwen, Senior Vice President of Zhongke Xingtou Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as &#34;Zhongke Xingtou&#34;, 688568.SH) and President of Zhongke Lanzhuo (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as &#34;Zhongke Lanzhuo&#34;), recently accepted an exclusive interview with the reporter from China Business News on hot topics such as low-altitude economic application scenarios, industry competition, and technological iteration.
Zhongke Xingtou was established in 2006 and was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Sci-Tech Innovation Board on July 8, 2020. It is a leading enterprise in the field of aerospace information in China. As a leader in aerospace information technology innovation, an integrator of the commercial aerospace industry chain, and a promoter of low-altitude economic industry development, Zhongke Xingtou is guided by national development strategies, deeply cultivates new quality productivity, and adheres to the concept of &#34;strengthening towards the sky, developing towards the air, integrating aerospace, and being cloud-based,&#34; promoting the implementation of the &#34;one body and two wings&#34; product strategy, and building a diversified and collaborative industrial development pattern. Zhongke Lanzhuo is a high-tech enterprise under Zhongke Xingtou that focuses on the industrial application of the next-generation radar. The company develops a series of security products with completely independent intellectual property rights in China, such as railway sentinels, bridge guardians, intelligent crossings, and tunnel water level monitoring and early warning, targeting key security industries such as rail transit, civil aviation airports, and special fields, based on technologies like microwave detection, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things.
The low-altitude economy will fully enter production and life
The &#34;14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China&#34; (hereinafter referred to as the &#34;Outline&#34;) released on March 13 proposed to promote the healthy and orderly development of the low-altitude economy. The Outline also mentioned enhancing the refinement level of low-altitude airspace management, strengthening airworthiness certification capabilities, and reinforcing low-altitude flight safety guarantees. It aims to advance legislation in emerging fields such as biomedicine, intelligent driving, and the low-altitude economy.
In Yu Hanwen's view, this statement in the Outline marks the transition of the low-altitude economy from macro guidance to deeper institutional establishment, moving from &#34;policy-driven&#34; to a new stage of &#34;legislative protection.&#34;
Predictions released at the 2025 China (Jiangxi) Aviation Industry Conference held in November 2025 indicate that the market size of China's low-altitude economy will reach 1.5 trillion yuan by 2025 and is expected to exceed 2 trillion yuan by 2030. The Civil Aviation Administration of China predicts that the market size of China's low-altitude economy is expected to exceed 3.5 trillion yuan by 2035
Yu Hanwen stated that in the future, the application scenarios of the low-altitude economy will cover all aspects of production and life, from traffic diversion and emergency firefighting in urban governance, environmental law enforcement, to medical supply delivery and low-altitude cultural tourism experiences in public services, and further to industrial applications such as safety inspections, dynamic monitoring, and three-dimensional visualization operations in stations. From low-altitude research studies in kindergartens to intelligent manufacturing and even major scientific research, the low-altitude economy will comprehensively enter our production and life.

Application flight scene demonstration of Zhongke Lanzhuo drones. Zhongke Lanzhuo/Image
Scaling, Collaboration, and Diversification to Build a Commercial Closed Loop
Identifying real demand scenarios is key to the sustainable development of the low-altitude economy. Yu Hanwen stated that for the low-altitude economy to achieve sustainable development, the focus should not be on &#34;flying more,&#34; but on &#34;using correctly&#34;—that is, anchoring on real demand to build a replicable, profitable, and scalable commercial closed loop. &#34;For an industry to develop from inception to maturity and achieve long-term growth, it must form a closed loop of commercial scenarios. Our thinking direction starts with market demand, followed by high-frequency usage scenarios.&#34;
He further explained that the first is scenario scaling, initially focusing on essential scenarios such as railways, emergencies, and logistics, forming an initial scale through a layout of &#34;10 city pilots + 60 city services&#34; to reduce unit service costs. The second is ecological collaboration, where we have established strategic partnerships with China Tower, geographic information service providers, etc., to share infrastructure and data resources, thereby reducing hardware investment and operational costs. The third is profit diversification, constructing a profit model of &#34;hardware sales + platform subscriptions + value-added services,&#34; charging annual service fees through the low-altitude control platform, providing clients with data insights and other value-added services to achieve a commercial closed loop.
By 2025, Zhongke Xingtou will outline a new paradigm for the development of the low-altitude economy with over 20 cities signed offline and over 80 cities served online. Yu Hanwen cited an example where in November 2025, Zhongke Xingtou and the Xi'an Yulanlin consortium won the bid for the Hanzhong low-altitude economy digital infrastructure project with a bid of 295 million yuan. The project's takeoff and landing points will cover all nine counties and two districts of the city, focusing on creating a &#34;sky-earth&#34; digital ecological system. The project precisely addresses the core pain points of low-altitude economic development, connecting the key links of &#34;planning—construction—operation—service,&#34; which includes the construction of infrastructure such as low-altitude communication, navigation, monitoring, and countermeasures, as well as subsequent services such as route development, aircraft operation and maintenance, and scenario operations, achieving a closed-loop development of the low-altitude economy from &#34;well-built&#34; to &#34;long-lasting.&#34;
While the low-altitude economy is rapidly developing, it also faces risks related to policies, competition, and technological iterations.
Yu Hanwen stated that the main industry risk is policy risk, such as issues related to airspace applications, including the industry's wait-and-see attitude towards policy directions, which fundamentally reflects anxiety about policy risks. Our response is to establish a policy research group to closely track the &#34;14th Five-Year Plan&#34; and low-altitude management-related policies, participate in the formulation of industry standards, and ensure the compliance of our business and products
&#34;In the face of industry competition, Geovis advocates avoiding homogeneous competition through 'technological differentiation,' focusing on the unique advantages of 'aerospace information + low-altitude scenarios,' while expanding the competitive radius through ecological cooperation,&#34; said Yu Hanwen. He introduced that in terms of technological iteration, based on our core advantages in the field of geographic information, we are laying out low-altitude frontier technologies in advance, maintaining technological leadership in niche areas, adhering to the principles of 'usable, reliable, and maintainable,' and not blindly pursuing cutting-edge but unengineered technologies, ensuring that low-altitude operations can not only 'take off' but also 'fly safely,' 'fly smoothly,' and 'fly economically.'
Leveraging the new paradigm of &#34;aerospace integration&#34; to tap into the intelligent security market for rail transit
Intelligent security is one of the important application areas of the low-altitude economy. As a key national infrastructure, the intelligent security market in the rail transit sector is vast.
Yu Hanwen analyzed that, from the perspective of industry development, China's rail transit (including national rail and urban rail) has seen total annual investments in intelligent security exceed 130 billion yuan. With the acceleration of new line construction and the deepening of intelligent transformation of existing lines during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, it is expected to maintain a steady growth of over 10% in the next five years.
In the face of this hundred-billion-level track, Geovis has been strengthening its layout. Yu Hanwen stated that Geovis does not enter the market as a traditional security manufacturer but rather leverages a new paradigm of three-dimensional security empowered by aerospace information. Geovis's advantages are mainly reflected in three aspects: first, the 'aerospace integration' technological barrier, which differs from the ground perspective of traditional security companies; second, the ability to customize scenarios, with products deeply adapted to the complex environment of rail transit; and third, the experience of integrating 'three defenses + digital intelligence,' which has been validated in multiple railway projects.
Currently, there are still some barriers to data interoperability between drones, low-altitude aircraft, and rail transit signal and operation management systems. In this regard, Yu Hanwen stated that for the low-altitude economy to truly integrate into industry applications, it is necessary to break down the data barriers between 'aerial islands' and 'ground systems,' such as differing standard systems, inconsistent data semantics, and ambiguous security boundaries. Geovis's breakthrough approach is 'co-building standards + decoupling architecture + scenario closed-loop,' on one hand, promoting cross-industry standard collaboration. On the other hand, constructing a 'safely isolated data middle platform.' Additionally, it aims to break through with a high-value scenario-driven mechanism, conducting pilot tests in demonstration projects and application scenarios to connect barriers.
With the development of the industry, Geovis's intelligent security capabilities are extending from 'key infrastructure protection' to 'urban public safety services.' Yu Hanwen stated that the value of aerospace information and low-altitude intelligent technology lies not only in safeguarding 'major arteries' but also in benefiting 'millions of families.' Based on the accumulated 'high-reliability perception - intelligent analysis - rapid response' technological foundation in the field of railway security, Geovis has systematically planned to migrate its core capabilities to three major livelihood scenarios: urban road governance, smart community security, and safety in schools and key locations.
(Editor: Wu Jing Review: Zhu Ziyun Proofreading: Zhang Guogang)

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Yu Hanwen, President of Zhongke Lantuo, stated in an interview that the development of the low-altitude economy requires joint efforts in policy guidance, capital support, technological breakthroughs, and market cultivation. He emphasized that only by forming a positive cycle can the low-altitude economy become a new growth pole of the Chinese economy. As a leading enterprise in the aerospace information field, Zhongke Xingtou is committed to promoting the healthy development of the low-altitude economy and has proposed relevant policies and legislative directions in the "Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development."

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