Mom is born in 1963. In April last year, she bought her own train ticket and headed north to the capital. After getting off the train, she took the subway on her own. After more than a dozen stops, she walked around the underground passage and headed straight for my house.

I work in a drone system manufacturing and application service company with artificial intelligence as the core technology. To be more fashionable, I am a practitioner in the low-altitude economy field.

When did the "low-altitude economy" become popular? If I ask my mother, she will definitely say, "It's from the time my daughter is on a business trip to when I don't know where she is every day, and it became popular at that time."

In fact, in 2021, the "low-altitude economy" will be included in the national plan. Until the end of 2023, the Central Economic Work Conference listed "low-altitude economy" as a strategic emerging industry; at the beginning of 2024, the "low-altitude economy" was written into the government work report for the first time; then, Guangdong, Shandong, Anhui, Sichuan, Shanghai... various places have introduced corresponding specific measures to implement low-altitude economy. From provincial to municipal level, and even county units, they are scrambling to investigate and follow up. For a moment, the whole country has shown a rush of low-altitude waves.

What is the "low-altitude economy" in various low-altitude aircraft?

The first person who asked me this question was my mother. That was in May 2024. CCTV-2 had a program called "Dialogue". The theme was "Is the Low-alt Economy Era Coming" and invited the head of the company I worked for to record the program as a dialogue guest. I am the director of the company's marketing department. In order to prepare the information needed for the recording of the program, I stayed up for several nights under my mother's nose. She handed me water and asked me, "What is your low-altitude economy? Why are you all so busy?" I replied, "I'm busy, why can we take a private plane back to our hometown soon..."

In fact, the current protagonists of the low-altitude economy refer to those flying activities that fly freely in the airspace below 3,000 meters. They use various low-altitude infrastructure such as drones and fully automatic airports as carriers to radiate comprehensive economic forms in multiple fields. Connect multiple industries to form a large industrial ecosystem. This is also the reason why the low-altitude economy is so popular at the moment.

My "low-altitude economy" keyword

When CCTV-2 "Dialogue" was broadcast on May 18, 2024, my mother sat in front of the TV and watched the program in full for 40 minutes.

She suddenly said, "It's a low-altitude economy, you have to have an economy! The price of that flying car is too high. Who would ordinary people take it? Your drones are very good, they are all used in places where the people are exposed to. You can also provide power protection and fire protection. What kind of drones can also be used as grid workers and spread large and small communities in the future. Isn't this the economy?"

My mother's inadvertent words mentioned several key points of the low-altitude economy: first, economic value and efficiency; second, the implementation of application scenarios; third, the huge market size.

Drone inspected at Saihanba Machinery Forest Farm